A new generation of magnetic nanobots cleans hidden plastic from water with surprising efficiency ...

XELA Robotics ( a specialist in advanced 3D tactile sensors that give robots a human sense of touch, is accelerating its ...

Engineers have developed a new soft magnetic hydrogel that can be 3D-printed into microscopic structures.

Researchers developed 3D printed, muscle-inspired magnetic actuators that push, pull, crawl, and grasp. The research paper describes a family of soft actuators that convert applied magnetic fields ...

Researchers' new fabrication technique can produce soft, microscopic structures with magnetically activated moving parts.

A 3D-printed gel that bends, grips, and changes shape with magnets could help build robots and medical tools for drug delivery and fluid control.

Under a microscope, a bouquet of lollipop-like structures, each smaller than a grain of sand, waves gently in a petri dish of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research team at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has developed miniature, grain-sized robots capable of ...

Micro-robots operate on a scale from a few microns to several millimeters. Untethered micro devices utilize magnetic fields or acoustic waves for precise propulsion. Biodegradable gels and ...

Ian says a humanoid robot can require several kilograms of a special material spread across all of its motors. Here's why ...