The arm uses what are called "soft robotics," which are robotics that use a soft, flexible and lightweight material for the parts, as opposed to more traditional robotics that use steel.

The phrase "robotic exosuit" likely calls to mind something metallic, rigid, and hinged—Iron Man's suit or the dozens of ...

An origami-inspired robot arm made with material from cotton plants and pigs biodegrades when no longer needed. Such a soft robot could be further developed to carry out medical procedures inside ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have enabled a paralysed man to regularly control a robotic arm using signals from his brain, transmitted via a computer. UCSF This BCI ...

Scientists at MIT have created a new kind of artificial muscle that can flex and move in multiple directions, much like real ...

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh developed a robotic arm that can serve coffee and perform other tasks thanks to AI ...

Now, MIT engineers have taken a major step toward developing robots that replace rigid gears with something much softer – ...

Wearable soft robotic devices offer a potential solution to suppress such ... The team equipped a biorobotic arm with two strands of artificial muscles strapped along the forearm. As can be seen in ...

A team of mechanical engineers at Beihang University, working with a deep-sea diving specialist from the Chinese Academy of ...