Inside, a soft, rubber computer tells the balloon when to ... In laboratories, the grippers can pick up slippery fish, live mice, and even insects, eliminating the need for more human interaction.

Increasingly, researchers are developing robots made from soft, elastic plastic and rubber and inspired by octopuses ... These new tentacles could pick up and hold an ant whose waist was about ...

MIT's soft robotic hand is made from silicone rubber and uses clever computer algorithms MIT CSAIL MIT has developed a soft 3D printed robotic hand that is so responsive it can safely pick up and ...

and this latest study is particularly significant as it is an advancement that achieves powerful performance in soft, rubber-like structures," said Kyu-Jin Cho, a professor at the Seoul National ...

The reason for this is the plasticizers, the chemicals that make rubber soft and pliable, dry up. See All 4 Photos Recently, we ran across another rubber preservative that was suggested by a ...

Inside this silicone rubber blob are a series of voids ... It’s an amazing amount of work to make just one of these soft robots, but once the molds and masters are made, [Matthew] can pop ...