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Endoscopy-assisted magnetic navigation of biohybrid soft microrobots with rapid endoluminal delivery and imaging.

Science robotics
High-precision delivery of microrobots at the whole-body scale is of considerable importance for efforts toward targeted therapeutic intervention. However, vision-based control of microrobots, to deep and narrow spaces inside the body, remains a chal...

Soft magnetic skin for super-resolution tactile sensing with force self-decoupling.

Science robotics
Human skin can sense subtle changes of both normal and shear forces (i.e., self-decoupled) and perceive stimuli with finer resolution than the average spacing between mechanoreceptors (i.e., super-resolved). By contrast, existing tactile sensors for ...

Electrostatic bellow muscle actuators and energy harvesters that stack up.

Science robotics
Future robotic systems will be pervasive technologies operating autonomously in unknown spaces that are shared with humans. Such complex interactions make it compulsory for them to be lightweight, soft, and efficient in a way to guarantee safety, rob...

Pneumatic soft robots take a step toward autonomy.

Science robotics
A four-legged soft robot walks, rotates, and reacts to environmental obstacles by incorporating a soft pneumatic control circuit.

Soft pumps for soft robots.

Science robotics
A light and portable soft electro-pneumatic pump could power future soft robots.

How could robotics help establish a new norm after COVID-19?

Science robotics
In a time of upheaval, robotics has an opportunity to offer long-term solutions and radical change.

Squid-inspired robots perform swimmingly.

Science robotics
A squid-like robot leverages resonance to match the swimming efficiency of biological animals.

A resonant squid-inspired robot unlocks biological propulsive efficiency.

Science robotics
Elasticity has been linked to the remarkable propulsive efficiency of pulse-jet animals such as the squid and jellyfish, but reports that quantify the underlying dynamics or demonstrate its application in robotic systems are rare. This work identifie...

A controllable dual-catapult system inspired by the biomechanics of the dragonfly larvae's predatory strike.

Science robotics
The biomechanics underlying the predatory strike of dragonfly larvae is not yet understood. Dragonfly larvae are aquatic ambush predators, capturing their prey with a strongly modified extensible mouthpart. The current theory of hydraulic pressure be...

Collaborating robots sample the primary production in the ocean.

Science robotics
Sampling genetic material from phytoplankton in open ocean eddies becomes more precise and efficient using a heterogeneous network of autonomous marine robots.