(Nanowerk Spotlight) The next generation of robots may not look anything like the rigid, mechanical machines we’re used to. Instead, imagine a robot that moves more like an octopus or a human hand, ...

The Soft Machines Lab at Carnegie Mellon University has created a rudimentary robot that can become a liquid on demand, a capability the lead author compared to the T-1000 from Terminator 2. Share on ...

A team of researchers at KAIST have developed a new liquid metal ink that could be applied to robots and wearable devices to ...

This is expected to open new possibilities for moving robots, wearable devices, and next-generation stealth technology. KAIST ...

What do Harry Potter's invisibility cloak and stealth fighter jets that evade radar have in common? They both make objects ...

Liquid Robotics, the pioneer of wave and solar powered ocean robots, today announced that its fleets of Wave Gliders have reached 1 million nautical miles at sea — an important milestone for the ...

Liquid metals can spontaneously bulge, protrude, branch and slither in response to certain ions in their environment. This happens due to the Marangoni effect, which starts with uneven changes in the ...

Figure 2. The liquid robot moves across the water’s surface, captures a foreign substance, and returns to its original position. Figure 3. (Left) Two liquid robots, each carrying different foreign ...