A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who ...

DUESSELDORF, Germany—Huntsman Corp. highlighted its advances in additive manufacturing technology at this year's K show with the launch of Iroprint materials, available in filaments, powder and resin.

An origami-based magnetic muscle drives two robots. One precisely introduces medicine into the human body, the other is a ...

RIT engineering technology researcher Christopher Lewis develops self-healing materials to improve 3D printing processes and ...

Discover how TPU expands the potential of industrial 3D printing, delivering flexible, strong, design-free components from ...

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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 ...

For some time, the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printing sector has been attempting to develop a dependable means for printing rubber-like filaments into desired shapes. The effort to establish ...

If an object that's composed of two types of material is going to fail, the break will usually occur at the interface where the two meet. A new type of light-activated 3D printing resin addresses that ...

A team of engineers at the University of Maryland has built a three-fingered soft robotic hand that is sufficiently agile to be able to manipulate the buttons and directional pad on a Nintendo ...