Engineers at Oxford University have developed a rapid, ultra-low-cost method for manufacturing soft robots using common lab equipment. The method has been published in Advanced Science. The new ...
Despite their remarkable flexibility, today’s soft artificial muscles struggle to deliver meaningful force. This limits their use in real-world machines, even though they can bend, stretch, and twist ...
A soft gripper fabricated using our method, successfully lifting (i) a ball of yarn, (ii) a plastic cup, and (iii) a plastic bottle as well as other 3D objects (cylinder, cube and sphere). Credit: ...