Engineers have developed a new soft magnetic hydrogel that can be 3D-printed into microscopic structures.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global soft magnetic powder market size is poised to reach USD 1.81 thousand tons by 2023, according to a new report by Technavio, progressing at a CAGR of 10% during the ...

A 3D-printed gel that bends, grips, and changes shape with magnets could help build robots and medical tools for drug ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The field of soft robotics seeks to create compliant, adaptive actuators that mimic the remarkable abilities of biological systems. Conventional robotic actuators, built from ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers presented magnetic soft-robotic chains (MaSoChains) that use magnetic and elastic energies to fold themselves into large stable ...

Under a microscope, a bouquet of lollipop-like structures, each smaller than a grain of sand, waves gently in a Petri dish of ...

Magnetically actuated mobile robots demonstrate attractive advantages in various medical applications due to their wireless and programmable executions with tiny sizes. Confronted with complex ...

Scientists from University of Macau designed a novel multi-section magnetic soft robot maneuvered by an associated collaborative multirobot navigation system. A research paper by scientists at the ...

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ...

A research team has demonstrated that an iron-based amorphous alloy, widely used as a soft magnetic material in transformers and motors, can be transformed into a 'transverse' thermoelectric ...

Iron filings dropped on a sheet of paper and given a good shake move about haphazardly without settling into any particular arrangement. If this process is repeated with a bar magnet placed underneath ...