A team of mechanical engineers at Beihang University, working with a deep-sea diving specialist from the Chinese Academy of ...
The small, robotic fish mimics the look and movement of a real ... A hydraulic pump moves its flexible, soft silicone tail, allowing it to move nimbly in the water. The robot is still in ...
A team of researchers at EPFL’s School of Engineering and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has created a ...
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In a recent paper in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, researchers at Florida Atlantic University describe the process of building and testing five free-swimming soft robotic jellyfish. The paper ...
A robot that employs the attributes of living beings rather than an android enclosed in metal. Soft robots do not necessarily look like real creatures, although some may. However, they emulate the ...
The octobot is the world’s first completely soft, autonomous, and untethered robot. It is free of wires, batteries, and any hard material—like its namesake, the octopus, which has no internal ...