Robotic claws, or grippers, are notoriously hard to use — remember trying to pick up a toy with an arcade claw machine as a kid (or an adult)? But a new soft gripper designed by researchers at the ...

A new soft robotic gripper was created with this fact in mind, as it grasps and releases objects without using any electricity at all. Developed by a team of researchers at the University of ...

A research team led by Associate Professor LI Mujun, Professor ZHANG Shiwu, and Professor HU Bing from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ...

A team at Disney Research has developed a new type of 3D printer that can build three-dimensional objects such as teddy bears out of soft fibres such as wool. The machine looks like a cross between a ...

Hello!<BR><BR>I am interested in creating a soft object which exhibits fluidlike behaviour. Using a mesh of springs as the surface but containing some springs (or other elements) underneath the ...

A baby monkey and a soft toy created a quietly viral moment online a few weeks ago. Its tiny arms wrapped around the plush figure as if it were the safest place in the world. But beyond the cuteness, ...