Hundreds of millions of people (12% of the global population) suffer from kidney stones. For many patients, the only options are to wait for it to pass, take a cocktail of drugs for months, or go ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

(a) Structural decomposition diagrams of the soft sheet robot and magnetorheological fluids. (b) Diagram of the 3D model of the soft sheet robot. (c) Microstructure diagram of magnetorheological ...

Robot collective Magnetic microrobot swarms act as motors to move millimetre-sized passive objects without physical contact. (Courtesy: MPI-IS) Strong viscous interactions exist in microscale systems, ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

Scientists at Southern Methodist University have developed a magnetic coil system that can control ...

Chemists made magnetically powered robots able to move faster with a clever design trick. They created a flexible film that has little pockets of magnetic powder in it, instead of mixing the powder ...

A single microrobot cleans pollutants from wastewater then repurposes them to kill cancer cells, executing both tasks in ...