A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo has recently unveiled a groundbreaking development in medical robots. These scientists have engineered a series of advanced materials set to serve ...

The hydrogel changes shape when exposed to chemical stimulation, allowing researchers to orient the cellulose nanoparticles at will and, therefore, ‘program’ the robot’s shape-changing, an important ...

Magnetic soft robots deliver and release tens of millions of probiotic bacteria with timed control, disrupt tumor spheroids in vitro, and demonstrate a potential strategy for targeted cancer treatment ...

A team of University of Waterloo researchers has created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical microrobots. They published their results in ...

Cilia are micrometer-sized biological structures that occur frequently in nature. Their characteristic high-frequency, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Inspired by the human eye, our biomedical engineering lab at Georgia Tech has designed an adaptive lens made of soft, light-responsive, tissuelike materials. Adjustable camera ...

'Soft robots,' medical devices and implants, and next-generation drug delivery methods could soon be guided with magnetism -- thanks to a metal-free magnetic gel developed by researchers. Carbon-based ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Corey Zheng, Georgia Institute of Technology and Shu Jia, Georgia Institute of ...