Tunable stiffness enables fast and efficient swimming in fish-like robots

A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines

New drones fitted with a type of motion-detecting camera can dodge obstacles ten times faster than current drones equipped with conventional cameras.

Autonomous robotic intracardiac catheter navigation using haptic vision

Robots can effectively guide catheters inside the heart, reports paper 'Autonomous robotic intracardiac catheter navigation using haptic vision'

An interaction between two species (honey bees and fish) that is guided by robots leads to interspecies collective behaviors

Building a robot with an anthropomorphic soft skeleton hand gives it the dexterity for fine motor movements, even those necessary for piano playing

Prosthesis with neuromorphic multilayered e-dermis perceives touch and pain

Researchers have created Bat Bot, a fully self-contained, autonomous flying robot that weighs 93 grams.

A new 'soft robot' navigates its environment by 'growing.' Pressurization of an inverted thin-walled vessel allows rapid and substantial lengthening of the tip of the robot body, and controlled asymmetric lengthening of the tip allows directional control.

Researchers have developed new adhesives that emulate the way a gecko uses its toes to cling to flat surfaces and can be switched on and off simply by shining a UV light on it.

Scientists use microscopic robotic probes as microprey to mimic bacteria, in order to study the hunting behavior and different attack modes of phagocytes (a type of white blood cell) of the immune system.

Scientists were able to feel the shape and softness of three tomatoes and select the ripe one using an optoelectronically innervated soft prosthetic hand.

Full restoration of independent daily living activities, such as eating and drinking, with 6 paraplegic individuals who used a noninvasive, EEG/EOG hybrid brain/neural hand exoskeleton to open and close their paralyzed hand, demonstrating direct brain control of advanced robotics.