Scientific FrontlineMay 27
The LIMA pump is a pea-sized, lightweight fluid pump that utilizes liquid metal to convert electrical energy into fluid motion. It serves as an efficient, ultra-compact power source for next-generation soft robotics and adaptive wearable materials.
#SoftRobotics #ElectromechanicalEngineering #FluidDynamics #Magnetohydrodynamics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/eng05272601.html
Scientific FrontlineMay 17
Xenobots are microscopic, programmable biological machines constructed entirely from living cells without any genetic modification. Measuring less than a millimeter, they lack traditional mechanical parts and are entirely organic, biodegradable, and derived primarily from embryonic stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis).
#WhatIs #EvolutionaryBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #SyntheticBiology #ComputationalBiology #SoftRobotics
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/wi05172601.html
What Is: Xenobots

What Is Xenobots, microscopic programmable machines built from living cells. Learn how they revolutionize regenerative medicine and synthetic biology.

Harvey SandstromApr 18
MIT has developed a surprisingly practical electrically-driven soft-actuator. Although technically hydraulic, it eliminates conventional pumps valves and resivoirs, instead using "fiber pumps" which are long tubes with helical internal electrodes. They can move fluid in either direction without moving parts by applying a high voltage. The fluid is pushed into a flexible "muscle" from the opposing muscle which acts as the resivoir. #ElectricalEngineering #SoftRobotics
https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/a-new-type-of-electrically-driven-artificial-muscle-fiber/
A new type of electrically driven artificial muscle fiber – MIT Media Lab

MIT researchers develop electrically driven artificial muscle fiber for soft robotics and prosthetics: compact, powerful, efficient systems

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3D Print 🧵 3Dable.ITMar 26
Korean researchers have developed 4D printed polymers using an industrial waste material that could transform soft robotics. The team from Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology created printable polymers that overcome a longstanding manufacturing challenge in flexible robotics. https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/krict-researchers-develop-4d-printed-polymers-redefining-soft-robotics-250163/ #3Dprint #3Dprinting #Research #SoftRobotics #KRICT
KRICT Researchers Develop 4D Printed Polymers Redefining Soft Robotics - 3D Printing Industry

Soft robotics has a longstanding problem: the materials that make robots flexible and lifelike are notoriously difficult to manufacture into precise, useful shapes. A team of researchers from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) may have found a way around that, using one of the cheapest and most overlooked industrial waste materials available: […]

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Scientific FrontlineMar 10
The soft fiber actuator is an ultrafine, electrically driven "soft yarn" made from flexible polymer capable of bending, contracting, and producing complex three-dimensional movements upon the application of an electrical voltage.
#MaterialScience #SoftRobotics #BiomedicalEngineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ms03102601.html
Soft Fibers that Move with Electricity

Soft actuators - materials that convert electrical energy into motion

purescience_newsMar 2
Engineers Create Soft Robots That Can Literally Walk on Water #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #SoftRobotics #WaterWalking #EngineeringInnovation
https://purescience.news/article?id=958364
Engineers Create Soft Robots That Can Literally Walk on Water

Scientists have developed HydroSpread, a novel technique for building soft robots on water, with wide-ranging possibilities in robotics, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. Picture a miniature robot, no larger than a leaf, gliding effortlessly across the surface of a pond, much like a water strider. In the future, machines of this scale could be deployed to [...]

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purescience_newsMar 2
Engineers Create Soft Robots That Can Literally Walk on Water #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #SoftRobotics #WaterWalking #EngineeringInnovation
https://purescience.news/article?id=958364
Engineers Create Soft Robots That Can Literally Walk on Water

Scientists have developed HydroSpread, a novel technique for building soft robots on water, with wide-ranging possibilities in robotics, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. Picture a miniature robot, no larger than a leaf, gliding effortlessly across the surface of a pond, much like a water strider. In the future, machines of this scale could be deployed to [...]

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Feb 13

3D Printing Pneumatic Channels With Dual Materials for Soft Robots

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/3d-printing-pneumatic-channels-with-dual-materials-for-soft-robots/

13Feb 13
3D Printing Pneumatic Channels With Dual Materials for Soft Robots https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/3d-printing-pneumatic-channels-with-dual-materials-for-soft-robots/
#RobotsHacks #Pneumatic #Softrobotics
3D Printing Pneumatic Channels With Dual Materials For Soft Robots

Pneumatics are a common way to add some motion to soft robotic actuators, but adding it to a robot can be somewhat of a chore. A method demonstrated by [Jackson K. Wilt] et al. (press release, prep…

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Jan Schmidt-PrüferJan 21

🧪Dehnbare Leiter aus Flüssigmetall: leitfähig bei 500% Dehnung, selbstheilend aber noch weit von Marktreife

👉 Meine Meinung: Der Impuls zählt. Die Herausforderung liegt in der Skalierbarkeit, nicht im Material.

(Video Credits to Cell Press / iScience, 14.06.2018, via CELL PRESS / ISC, "Video S1. MPC for Stretchable Circuits, Related to Figure 3"; Social Media-Bearbeitung: Rinor Restelica)

#FlüssigMetall #SoftRobotics #StretchableElectronics #Innovation