Global soft robotics market will reach $18,154.9 million by 2031, growing by 33.8% annually over 2021-2031, driven by the mounting demand for safety and automation in numerous end-user industries, ...

Real world applications can include design of artificial hearts and heart valves or robot materials that mimic flesh and soft tissue.

Researchers at the AMOLF institute have created a revolutionary soft robot without electronic components that moves using ...

However, all this intelligence is concentrated in the software—the brain—and no comparable focus is placed on the mechanical design—the body. As such, robots are pretty much like puppets.

A team of researchers created Morpho, an open-source programmable environment that enables researchers and engineers to conduct shape optimization and design for soft materials. Applications can ...

Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson talks about a soft, vine-like robot called SPROUT that aids safe survivor rescues in collapsed buildings.

Dutch scientists built a brainless soft robot that runs on air It runs like a stotting gazelle and swims like a dog.

A research team from AMOLF in Amsterdam created a soft robot that walks, hops, and swims — all without a brain, electronics, or AI. Just soft tubes, air, and some clever physics.  ...

The fastest-ever swimming soft robot has been inspired by manta rays. The record-breaking robot has fins shaped like those of a manta ray and is made of a material that is stable when the fins are ...

The gecko-inspired robot could be helpful for search and rescue missions in dangerous rubble and planetary exploration on treacherous terrain.