Shape-shifting material to enable light-controlled artificial muscles
Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are scaling individual molecular machines into three-dimensional structures to create a new class…
Videos: Bipedal Robot, NASA Robots, Aibo app, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.…
New magnetic polymer design boosts force and stretch in soft robotics
Despite their remarkable flexibility, today’s soft artificial muscles struggle to deliver meaningful force. This limits their use in…