Mattel is introducing a 3D printing system of mobile app plus printer to produce toys.

Mattel is introducing a 3D printing system of mobile app plus printer to produce toys.
Swiss researchers have used polymer actuators to create a two-fingered robotic gripper that can pick up objects of arbitrary shape, weight or deformability.
Underwater actuator devices with a range of motion, including swimming and walking, are demonstrated via laser-control of density of composite hydrogels.
A new class of soft actuators based on the auxetic behavior of patterned cylindrical shells containing a layout of voids that can be designed to reversibly achieve flexural or twisting motion is presented.
Nadia Cheng and colleagues present a novel thermally tunable composite that can achieve significant ranges of stiffness, strength, and volume.
A soft laminate simultaneously functions as a high-efficiency bending actuator and a high-efficiency open-air supercapacitor.
Microrobots offer huge potential in medicine, particularly in the field of drug delivery.
A consortium made up of European research institutions and industrial partners is developing mobile, autonomously operating robots
Researchers have fabricated arrays of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic controlling signals.
Scientists have developed autonomous catalytic microrobots that swim towards a specified target with a speed of 20 body length per second.