At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, a robotic arm reaches out, grasps a red block, and moves it to ...

A team led by the University of Oxford has developed a new class of soft robots that operate without electronics, motors, or computers—using only air pressure. The study, published in Advanced ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...