With all the sci-fi movies and books at our disposal, and with our imagination fueled even further by the increasingly daring space missions our species is attempting, it's not hard to imagine a ...

Engineers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have developed a tiny robot that mimics geckos ad inchworms that may one day help doctors with their surgeries, according to IET. SAN FRANCISCO, CA - ...

A tiny robot that could one day help doctors perform surgery was inspired by the incredible gripping ability of geckos and the efficient locomotion of inchworms. A tiny robot that could one day help ...

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Scientists pushing the frontiers of soft robotics continue to find inspiration in the animal kingdom, with the latest examples that move like inchworms and earthworms deploying some novel sensor ...

Robot locomotion is a broad topic, and there are a multitude of choices for the budding designer. Often, nature is an inspiration, and many ‘bots have been built to explore the motion regimes of ...

A new gelatinous robot that crawls, powered by nothing more than temperature change and clever design, brings “a kind of intelligence” to the field of soft robotics. The inchworm-inspired work is ...