The robots run on a hydraulic system powered by a compact pump, called a “hydraulic heart,” which uses water to move the ...

In a laboratory in Connecticut, a palm-sized silicone robot scrunches up its body to inch forward in a caterpillar-like motion. A brick tips over onto its leg, trapping it as it struggles to move on.

If a soft-bodied robot uses rigid actuators to move its body, then it isn't really soft now, is it? An experimental new caterpillar-inspired bot gets around that conundrum by using soft, collapsible ...

LOS ANGELES - Harvard scientists have built a new type of flexible robot that is limber enough to wiggle and worm through tight spaces. It's the latest prototype in the growing field of soft-bodied ...

It was just two years ago that a tiny robotic manta ray became the world's fastest-swimming soft-bodied robot. Well, one of its descendants has now smashed that record – and it uses less energy than ...

Professor of Biology Barry Trimmer highlighted the groundbreaking capabilities of his newly developed soft-bodied robot during the Dean's Faculty Forum in the Coolidge Room in Ballou Hall on Monday ...

It fell from a height of over 30 stories—yet astonishingly, it stood up and walked away! In the future, during earthquake rescue operations, these robots could be air-dropped by drones into rubble to ...

Not even vaguely humanoid and still managing to land squarely in the middle of the Uncanny Valley, these crazy techno-tentacles from Stanford can grow and propel themselves like living vines.

Inspired by nature’s simplest creatures, an innovative robotic duo combines tiny, insect-like robots with inflatable, vine-like robots that grow and curl like snakes. The innovation named mCLARI, ...

A group of Tufts researchers working on building a new type of robot is looking for help from an unusual source: caterpillars. The goal of the project, led by Professor Barry Trimmer, is to build the ...