The soft robot moves like a squid using water jets. It swims, checks the ocean, and helps explore without harming fish or ...

Nature has long served as inspiration for cutting-edge engineering—especially in the realm of underwater propulsion.

Soft robots, made from flexible materials ... the changing contact area between the shell and the ground. As the inverted shell snaps back to its original shape, the contact area transitions from a ...

Here’s a little robot that knows how to dress for the occasion. Watch these 'transformer' robots fold themselves into boats, wheels and other useful shapes - Los Angeles Times ...

Robotic ammonites, evaluated in a university pool, allow researchers to explore questions about how shell shapes affected swimming ability. They found trade-offs between stability in the water and ...

US-based researchers have created a robot that can use its body shape to move through a densely cluttered environment. The team from the University of California, Berkeley based the robot on the ...

It turns out that the elongated disc shape of the insects' carapace (body shell) not only helped keep them from getting snagged, but it also naturally caused them to turn sideways, presenting a ...

New Shape-Shifting Robot Turtle Can Navigate Land and Sea. ... Their hope is that the robot will help humans explore “treacherous ... while the robot turtle’s lightweight 3D printed shell ...

From R2D2 to the Terminator via Bender and Johnny-5, we choose our favourite robots from books, films and television series ...

Italian researchers have created a novel 4D-printed biodegradable 'seed robot' that changes shape in response to changes in humidity and can navigate through the soil. The device has great ...

This shape-shifting robot adjusts its body to walk across all kinds of terrain This robot's got legs for days March 16, 2021 - 8:08 am ...

The robot chooses its shape based on a software library of 57 possible configurations set to match specific tasks. It can transform itself into something resembling a snake, for example, or sprout ...