"Two years ago, we demonstrated an aquatic soft robot that was able to reach average speeds of 3.74 body lengths per second," says Jie Yin, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an ...

Her research makes a significant advance by applying origami techniques to more robust engineering materials. She said: ...

Folding techniques, also known as origami, the generic term for paper folding, have been applied to many fields, such as in material research [1], robot structure [2] [3], electric devices [4 ...

The researchers initially set out to create a soft, aquatic robot that was simultaneously ... North Carolina State PhD student and Paper co-author Haitao Qing told Popular Science he is fascinated ...

The Galaxy Z Fold 6 is already an expensive phone ... pocket-friendly profile, and features soft, shock-absorbent TPU edges for extra grip and protection from impact. For the price, this is ...

I never thought I'd get excited about a cleaning tool, but here we are. The Shark Empty & Clean Vacuum removes all the cat ...

If you've ever tried folding a fitted sheet before, you might have had a nightmare experience that went a little something like this: violently folding and refolding the sheet, sighing in ...

Cornell researchers in physics and engineering have created the smallest walking robot yet. Its mission: to be tiny enough to interact with waves ... "It can perform up-close imaging in ways that a ...

While such a robot does not yet exist outside a laboratory, researchers are working to develop reconfigurable soft robots for applications ... and co-author of a paper on this approach.

When employees have significant gaps in their soft skills there are significant negative consequences: Potentially good hires are overlooked. Good hires go bad. Bad hires go worse ...