It bends, stretches, and slithers, just like a creature straight out of a Marvel movie. Researchers have developed a super agile robot that can shapeshift using a special electro-morphing gel, ...

Embodying intelligence into materials requires engineering systems that can autonomously sense, adapt, and respond to environmental stimuli, similar to the dynamic behaviours of living organisms.

Skin is a marvel. It’s flexible yet firm, helps control body temperature, and protects our internal organs. It also can heal itself after certain injuries. Skin’s self-healing properties are partially ...

A novel class of programmable, self-healing hydrogel nanocomposites has been developed by combining cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) with zwitterionic copolymers of 3-dimethyl(methacryloyloxyethyl) ...

Swimming can take a lot of muscle. But as MIT engineers have found, even a single layer of muscle cells can power through ...

Scientists have found a way to direct the growth of hydrogel to mimic plant or animal tissue structure and shapes, an advance that could be utilised in soft robotics. The findings, published in ...

Researchers have achieved a tremendous breakthrough in the field of soft robotics, creating a bot using water-based hydrogen material, so as to allow it to be patterned, folded, and manipulated to ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Inspired by the hardness-changing behavior of sea cucumbers, a 3D-printed hard/soft switchable hydrogel was successfully developed by infusing a phase transition hydrated salt solution into the ...