The U.S. Army is developing snakelike robots for battlefield action that could include search and rescue missions, opening doors, and handling improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in a bid to keep ...

ADELPHI, Md. (July 22, 2010) -- Development of snake-like technology underway at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is moving the military toward sending more autonomous systems instead of Soldiers on ...

Traditional robots can have difficulty grasping and manipulating soft objects if their manipulators are not flexible in the way elephant trunks, octopus tentacles, or human fingers can be.

MIT researchers have created an interactive design pipeline that streamlines and simplifies the process of crafting a customized robotic hand with tactile sensors. Typically, a robotics expert may ...

The flexibility of the ever-tapering tentacles on an octopus, combined with grippers, inspired a robotic grabbing tool. (Pseudopanax via Wikimedia Commons) When robots lend humans a hand on the ...

Iowa State University researchers have developed micro-tentacles able to provide tiny robots with grip and dexterity for objects at the millimeter scale. The advance opens the door for a world of ...

Hazardous subsea inspections could be made safer with a tentacle-like underwater robot developed in a collaboration between the UK’s National Robotarium and Brazil’s Senai Cimatec. Tentacle Like ...

Roboticists often take cues from nature, but their machines usually rely on synthetic materials. A team at EPFL’s Computational Robot Design and Fabrication Lab (CREATE Lab) has taken a different ...

(Nanowerk News) MIT researchers have created an interactive design pipeline that streamlines and simplifies the process of crafting a customized robotic hand with tactile sensors. Typically, a ...