After submerging the robot in underwater tunnels designed to mimic swimming near the sea floor, their tests indicate that ...

McGill engineers created graphene oxide origami materials that move, sense motion, and reshape themselves for soft robots.

Chinese team unveils GrowHR, a soft humanoid that can shapeshift, float, swim, fly, and walk on water with bone-inspired linkages.

McGill University engineers have developed new ultra-thin materials that can be programmed to move, fold and reshape ...

By harnessing electron-beam patterning to control the swelling and contraction of a soft polymer, researchers created a ...

EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous ...

Inspired by the remarkable camouflage abilities of octopus and cuttlefish, Stanford researchers have developed a soft material that can rapidly shift its surface texture and color at extremely fine ...

Octopus-inspired synthetic skin shifts color and texture via nanoscale patterning, pointing to displays, camouflage, and soft robots.

Learn more about the polymer film that can change color and texture when electron beams are applied.

Researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential applications in camouflage, art, robotics, and nanoscale bioengineering.

Scientists have unveiled a synthetic skin inspired by octopus camouflage that is capable of changing colour and texture, opening up potential uses from robotics to display technologies. Researchers ...