Over on their YouTube channel [Science Buddies] shows us how to embed LEDs in soft robots. Soft robots can be made entirely or partially from silicone. In the video you see an example of a claw-like ...

Researchers at Yale University, US, are working on small, soft, modular robots, capable of assembling or, on the contrary, detaching parts depending on the situations and spaces in which they are ...

A factory in China is developing hyper-realistic humanoid robots that can chillingly mimic human facial expressions and emotions in scientists' latest attempt to replace workers with machines.

Telexistence Inc. (TX) and Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd. (SEJ) have entered into a partnership to jointly develop, validate, and ...

In a laboratory in Connecticut, a palm-sized silicone robot scrunches up its body to inch forward in a caterpillar-like motion. A brick tips over onto its leg, trapping it as it struggles to move on.

E-skin in the game: scientists invent layer of silicone that allows robots to touch and feel as humans do The stretchy material is embedded with wires and sensitive detectors that will allow them to ...

The standard definition of a robot is an electromechanical device that works automatically. But an artificial jellyfish created by Harvard and Caltech researchers goes a lot further than biomimicry ...

Designed for today's demanding Mobile Video-Conference & Telepresence Robot applications, Cicoil's ultra-flexible flat silicone cables are halogen-free, flame retardant and perform exceptionally well ...

NASA will showcase two intelligent robots on Monday, October 3, in the outdoor ‘Marscape’ at NASA Ames Research Center, located in California’s Silicon Valley. The two robots – ‘K-9’ and ‘Gromit’ – ...

The stubby Grumman Hellcat, No. 1 Navy fighter craft in World War II, has long been outmoded by later propeller-driven types and by jets. Now the Navy has found a use for some of its old Hellcats: it ...