We’ve all seen them wriggling around in the soil or crawling across the sidewalk after a heavy rain. The humble earthworm is ubiquitous and has largely enjoyed a positive reputation as one of nature’s ...

It's all possible thanks to what worms actually do under the ground: eat, excrete, and wiggle around. Researchers make astonishing find about earthworm impact on crop plants — and it could ...

Now researchers at MIT, Harvard University and Seoul National University have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its ...

MR. E. LAWRENCE'S letter in this week's NATURE reminds me that, walking, now many years ago, on a very hot and bright summer's day, I saw a huge earthworm crawling across the hard-beaten and sun ...

The paper, “Earthworm-Inspired Multimodal Pneumatic Continuous Soft Robot Enhanced by Winding Transmission” was published in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems on Mar. 19, 2025, at DOI: 10. ...