Tools that offer early and accurate insight into plant health—and allow individual plant interventions—are key to increasing crop yields as environmental pressures increasingly impact horticulture and ...

Soft grippers, which are built from flexible materials that can bend and deform, are attracting a lot of attention from ...

Built from flexible, compliant materials, soft robots are gaining relevance for tasks ranging from minimally invasive surgery ...

Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot ...

Researchers in Japan have taken cues from elephants’ trunks to create a soft robotic gripper that can handle delicate objects ...

Researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft robot gripper that can predict the ripeness of strawberries by touch, then gently twist them off their branch or vine without causing ...

Researchers have developed a soft mechanical force sensor that enables robots to detect touch ...

Engineers at Queen Mary University of London have built a new color-changing tactile sensor, which allows robots to "see" and touch in real-time. The novel idea was invented by Giacomo Sasso, a ...

A new type of robot technology that needs 90% less electricity than conventional systems is currently being developed in Saarland. The technology uses lightweight, shape memory materials to construct ...