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 ...

A field called swarm robotics is taking inspiration from ants, bees and even slime molds.

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

In response to a short pulse of near-infrared light, the robot released the pebble. Further, the light produced heat triggered a shape change that forced the robot to unfold. The robot then returned ...

SEOUL, South Korea — What if doctors could deploy thousands of tiny robots to clear blocked arteries? Scientists at Hanyang ...