The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

Origami isn’t just art anymore. A team of researchers at North Carolina State University has developed a new 3D printing technique that gives origami robots a life of their own, thanks to paper-thin ...

During trials, the 3D-printed “lollipop” structures were magnetized to assorted levels. When a simple refrigerator magnet was ...

Researchers developed 3D printed, muscle-inspired magnetic actuators that push, pull, crawl, and grasp. The research paper describes a family of soft actuators that convert applied magnetic fields ...

Engineers have developed a new soft magnetic hydrogel that can be 3D-printed into microscopic structures.

Researchers' new fabrication technique can produce soft, microscopic structures with magnetically activated moving parts.