There's now at least a few robots that swim like fish, but they have their limits: they still take time to turn around, and they're not exactly precision instruments. Researchers at ETH Zurich are ...

A new type of soft robot can crawl like a worm, climb cables, and suddenly snap into a completely different shape to move in a new direction—all controlled by a single air input. This ...

This robot, introduced in a paper published on the arXiv preprint server, leverages its unique helical ring-based structure to move in all directions. "One day, ...

The Dream Bot This robot can turn a good night’s sleep into a true work of art. As part of the Sleep Art Experience, mattresses at five European hotels have been outfitted with 80 sensors that ...

A new flexible robotic fish can quickly change direction just by wiggling its tail, closely mimicking the behaviour of real fish. Developed by Andrew Marchese from the Massachusetts Institute of ...

For robots to do tasks that are relatively simple for humans—like driving a car, fetching a tool from a toolbox, passing something to a human co-worker, or repairing a broken object—they need ...