Engineers at EPFL have developed a programmable foam lattice that blends softness and rigidity across a robot’s body. Inspired by the musculoskeletal system of animals, the new design enables robots ...

Scientist have grown human cells on a robot skeleton, hoping that by moving the skeleton they can better approximate the cells’ natural growing environment. The cells certainly grew, but it’s ...

Scientists managed to create a new tissue engineering concept that could make flexible cells growable, but they're still working on it.

Robot without a skeleton inspired by squid, crawls on land Researchers build a soft-bodied, air-powered robot that can crawl under … ...

The skeletal fingers react to the piano keys differently, depending on their joints’ stiffness and how they’re placed on the keys. So this single hand design, 3-D printed in one go with various ...

Late-night talk show host Craig Ferguson routinely mocks CBS for being too cheap to pay for decent lighting, a band or a second banana. The lights may still be dim, and there’s no band in sight ...

The first step to create a biohybrid robot: to construct the robot skeleton. The researchers created theirs using 3D-printed resin.

Some engineers at Virginia Tech have decided to push this kind of capability to a new extreme, creating a robot that shape-shifts by melting its own metal skeleton to convert from a four-wheeled ...

If robots that mimic animal or human behavior are your nightmare fuel, turn away now. Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology went one step further with a skeleton robot, giving it human ...

And it’s why we’ve built a humanoid robot that sweats. One of the major challenges facing robotics is heat, which starts to effect performance if it isn’t properly dissipated.

Soft robots are nice and cuddly, but that also makes them weak. Until, that is, researchers gave them skeletons.

Ferguson's vision was a rough-and-ready robot skeleton that could move and speak at the push of a button. "I said, 'well, it would be easier to make this radio-controlled—your sound man plays ...