A paper crane that flaps its wings without a single motor inside it sounds like a magic trick. But engineers at Princeton ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we think about robots, we think about complex electronic devices. We're conditioned to think about robots as sophisticated ...

Engineers at Princeton University have built a new class of soft robots that move ...

If you want to work with robots you can do all sorts of learning with software and simulation, but nothing quite beats getting to grips with real machinery. That was the motivation for [James ...

With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swedish researchers have developed a breakthrough 3D printing method to create soft actuators. These dielectric elastic actuators ...

So the waste problem in 3D printing is really a chemistry problem. Once these materials harden, they’re locked into their ...

Imagine a robot that can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material. That is ...

Researchers in California have created an incredibly small robot that needs no battery or wired power supply to zip through the air. Instead, it uses magnets to fly. A magnetic field produced by an ...

Automation technology from ABB Ltd has helped construct Japan’s first 3D-printed railway station building, ...

Additive manufacturing has enabled the deposition of highly flexible, affordable materials, easily printed using low-cost fused filament fabrication. The transition from soft lithography to digital ...