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Sticky materials un-stick themselves in jumps – Physics World

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Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: A color-based sensor to emulate skin’s sensitivity: In a step toward more autonomous soft robots and wearable technologies, EPFL...

Home > Press > A color-based sensor to emulate skin's sensitivity: In a step toward more autonomous soft robots and wearable technologies, EPFL researchers...

Interlinking spatial dimensions and kinetic processes in dissipative materials to create synthetic systems with lifelike functionality – Nature Nanotechnology

Bissell, R. A., Córdova, E., Kaifer, A. E. & Stoddart, J. F. A chemically and electrochemically switchable molecular shuttle. Nature 369, 133–137 (1994).Article  ...

Light-controlled liquid metal strips bring new flexibility to soft robotics

Dec 05, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Soft robotics has tantalized researchers with its promise of machines that can squeeze into tight spaces, handle fragile objects, and...

Scientists 3D Print a Complex Robotic Hand With Bones, Tendons, and Ligaments

We don’t think twice about using our hands throughout the day for tasks that still thwart sophisticated robots—pouring coffee without spilling when half-awake, folding...

New photothermal material enables remote-controlled soft robots to crawl like earthworms

Nov 19, 2023 (Nanowerk News) For decades, scientists have envisioned a future where nimble robots could traverse rugged terrain and squeeze into tight spaces, ideal...

This 3D printer can watch itself fabricate objects (w/video)

Nov 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) With 3D inkjet printing systems, engineers can fabricate hybrid structures that have soft and rigid components, like robotic grippers...

Advances in soft robotics usher in a new era of scientific analysis

Nov 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Could robots, whose forms can be adapted to achieve almost any real-world task, soon be able to lend a...

Honeybee comb-inspired stiffness gradient-amplified catapult for solid particle repellency – Nature Nanotechnology

Barthlott, W. & Neinhuis, C. Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces. Planta 202, 1–8 (1997).Article  CAS  Google...

Revolutionary self-sensing electric artificial muscles

Jul 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a study published recently in Advanced Intelligent Systems ("An Electric Self-Sensing and Variable-Stiffness Artificial Muscle"), researchers from Queen...

Harnessing machine learning in designing soft materials

May 23, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Soft materials such as polymers, rubbers, and hydrogels play a significant role in your everyday life. From your car's...

Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Researchers at Purdue discover superconductive images are actually 3D and disorder-driven fractals

Home > Press > Researchers at Purdue discover superconductive images are actually 3D and disorder-driven fractals Abstract:Meeting the world’s energy demands is reaching...

Researchers develop the missing component in robotic textiles

For years the snag with soft robotics has been that a lot of it requires...

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