The phrase "robotic exosuit" likely calls to mind something metallic, rigid, and hinged—Iron Man's suit or the dozens of ...

Roboticists have been motivated by a long-standing goal to make robots safer. The new actuator could be used to develop inexpensive, soft, flexible robots which are safer and more practical for ...

Breaking away from conventional robots that perform only predefined functions once fabricated, researchers have developed a ...

A new development from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea could advance the field of soft robotics. The team successfully created a novel artificial muscle ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

ZURICH, Switzerland (CBS Newspath/Reuters/WKRC) - A revolutionary new suit has allowed lucky users to experience a whole new level of interaction with the virtual world. The Meta Suit is a full-body ...

Soft robotics has been a promising field of research for years, but these squidgy and flexible creations have been held back by the absence of one important characteristic: strength. Now, scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The exosuit was integrated into a spacesuit for the ADAMA space mission simulation in Adelaide, Australia. (CREDIT: University of ...