Humanoid robots are moving closer to real-world deployment – and their progress depends on physical intelligence and real-time reasoning.<br /><br /> ...

The chip is a system-on-chip (SoC) device, which means all the key sensing and processing functions are built into one small ...

North Carolina, USA — October 2025. Researchers at North Carolina State University have created paper-thin “magnetic muscles” that can power origami structures. The technology uses magnetic films to ...

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ...

Abstract: In this study, in order to improve the accuracy of eccentric magnetic absolute encoders (EMAE), an angle calculation method that combines radial basis function neural networks (RBFNN) and ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

A research project exploring jet propulsion in bionic underwater robots, inspired by the razor clam (Solen strictus). Two different propulsion mechanisms were designed, simulated, and tested to study ...

A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by ...

Abstract: Magnetic soft robots promise unprecedented medical applications due to their untethered motion and control capabilities. These magnetic soft robots, which are navigated by external magnetic ...