Additive manufacturing can describe two technologies in food production — the more commonly known is 3D printing, which has ...

Researchers at the Bioinspired Robotics Laboratory, University of California San Diego, have developed robots that can be printed from a single piece of material in a single pass. These robots can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we think about robots, we think about complex electronic devices. We're conditioned to think about robots as sophisticated ...

Soft robots made out of flexible, biocompatible materials are in high demand in industries from health care to manufacturing, but precisely designing and controlling such robots for specific purposes ...

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

While there are many potential uses for soft-bodied robots, the things are still typically only built in small experimental batches. Scottish scientists are out to change that, with a ...

This article is part of "Solutionaries," our continuing commitment to solutions journalism, highlighting the creative people in communities working to make the world a better place, one solution at a ...

Do you ever dream about work? The technicians at this 3D printing factory in Korea must have some weird dreams. Nightmares even, when they’re making human robot faces and hands for a living. But ...

A 3D printed hand, with hinges, before perfusion. Harvard engineers have developed a new 3D printing method for building soft robots that bend and change shape in predictable ways when inflated. The ...