Soft robots are ideal to operate in unstructured and human environments due to their soft robot materials and compliant actuators. Wearable robots can enhance the quality of life in numerous scenarios ...

Holy cow. We’ve seen lots of soft robotics before, but this is some really cool stuff! You see, [Mike] is actually planning on building an inexpensive prosthetic robot hand using this technology.

A robot that employs the attributes of living beings rather than an android enclosed in metal. Soft robots do not necessarily look like real creatures, although some may. However, they emulate the ...

The octobot is the world’s first completely soft, autonomous, and untethered robot. It is free of wires, batteries, and any hard material—like its namesake, the octopus, which has no internal ...

Dr. Jacqueline Libby explains why her team’s prototype soft exosuits could replace traditional, clunky stroke rehabilitation ...

Researchers at SEAS and the BU’s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences used a soft, wearable robot to help a person living with Parkinson’s walk without freezing. The robotic ...

A soft robot design that demonstrates the desired motion of actuation in order to safely maneuver through the lung during bronchoscopy. During a bronchoscopy, a needle is passed through the airway to ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft robot that moves in a distinctly caterpillar-like manner. As detailed in the research paper in Science Advances by [Shuang Wu ...

"Soft robotics allows us to rethink what the body of a robot should be," she says. "It helps us expand what robots are capable ... Whereas existing upper limb exoskeletons cost tens of thousands of ...