A team of researchers at Cornell University is using stretchable fiber-optic sensors to develop a soft robot gripper capable ...

Countless industrial tools and robots need to grip things, and because we humans learn to grip since infancy, we can easily ...

Researchers have developed a 3D printing strategy to create programmable artificial muscles. Harvard’s SEAS ...

It's a game a lot of us played as children -- and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, ...

A soft robotic system uses liquid crystal elastomers to merge shape shifting, gripping, and color change, demonstrating fully integrated motion and optical feedback within a single flexible material. ...