Seniors in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder are designing a new soft robot to improve physicians’ ability to examine the deepest part of a patient’s lung.

Breaking new ground in a nascent industry, mechanical engineering seniors are trying their hand at prototyping a 3D-printed soft robotic device for industrial use that can work side-by-side with human ...

Harvard University labs, working in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin, are offering a comprehensive online toolkit to help in the design, creation, and control of soft robots made from ...

Current robotic materials and prosthetic limbs, while quickly gaining precision and application, are typically made of rigid materials and aren’t the most graceful machines – think C-3PO from "Star ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has developed a new method of surface engineering polymer soft-materials that has potential to accelerate ...

Mastering sustainable energy will be one of the defining scientific challenges of the 21st century. The development of electrical energy storage systems is one key to assuring that renewable power is ...

Pakistan should move away from solely using a hard-engineering approach for controlling floods and, instead,consider soft-engineering approaches like the creation of wetlands When we look at some of ...

Finding the right talent is half the battle amid the high demand for software engineers and the 34% voluntary turnover rate across tech companies. Only after identifying skilled tech experts, ...