A squishy octopus-shaped machine less than 2 centimetres tall is making waves in the field of soft robotics. The ‘octobot’ described today in Nature 1 is the first self-contained robot made ...

Brain fluid probed by ultrasound using squishy cubes. Soft solids that swell with shifts in pressure, temperature and pH provide a way of detecting such changes in the fluid around the brain.

Researchers embrace the wobbliness of soft materials to make squishy robots. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- When you think of robots you probably picture something made of ...

A squishy, lightweight robot with complex sensors that can be dropped onto the moon or Mars from high above the surface one day is expected to help humanity perform science in rough terrains.

'Squishy Finger' Soft Robot Hands Allow Sampling of Delicate Corals. Two National Geographic explorers teamed up to solve a tricky problem in remote sample collection. By Brian Clark Howard.