Before this newest wormbot, locomotive soft bots required moving magnetic fields to control their direction and angle. “ [I]f you want your robot to walk, your magnet walks with it.

The robot’s magnetic skin help scientists control them using external magnets. The new invention is claimed to be manoeuvrable enough to navigate an ‘S’ bend.

The magnetic slime is made of toxic chemicals, including the neodymium magnet particles. As such, scientists say we’ll need to ensure they cannot leak into the body before we can use the slime ...

However, a freaky breakthrough video shows a soft-bodied robot pulling wires together, enveloping objects like “The Blob,” navigating passages as narrow as 1.5 mm and even glomming together ...

There are no robotics inside the slime at present, but you can steer it like a robot— and the "ultimate goal" is to use it like one, according to researcher and co-creator Li Zhang.

It's not a spider. It's Marvel, a four-legged robot that can quickly climb walls and walk across ceilings. The name stands for "magnetically adhesive robot for versatile and expeditious locomotion." ...

Culture Crablike robot walks on walls, ceilings with magnet feet BIREM can go from horizontal to vertical surfaces and could be used to inspect aging bridges and other steel structures.

However, before they can use the robot inside a real person's body, the scientists will first need to come up with a way of tracking it. "If you want to control something inside the body to do a ...