Once inside, a magnetic field guides and unfolds it at the target site, where it releases medicine in a controlled and steady manner. In tests using a mock stomach, a plastic sphere filled with warm ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who ...

They magnetized it in a curled configuration so that ... surgical tools that bend delicately around organs, home robots that ...

A research team at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has developed miniature, grain-sized robots capable of carrying multiple drugs and delivering them directly to targeted areas ...