Programmable soft materials enable smarter, direction-based robotics
A new class of soft, programmable composites that can twist, stiffen, and move differently depending on direction may…
3D-printed magnetic origami robots deliver medicine
By infusing rubber-like elastomers with ferromagnetic particles, the team at North Carolina State University produced a flexible magnetic…
Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments
Arm actions Twelve arm actions were identified from 15 behaviors with a total of 3,907 actions recorded from…