The usual way to get biological tissues and materials like gels and metals to stick together is using sutures, adhesives or both. Although this generally works, it’s far from ideal, with adhesives ...

Robots aren’t exactly known for their delicate touch, but soon, the stereotype of the non-gentle machine may change. Scientists say they have managed to develop a robot with “a new soft gripper” that ...

Building machines that replicate the delicate touch of a human hand is a complex undertaking that has seen the development of all kinds of soft robotic grippers, from squishy green blobs to boa ...

(via Reactions) How would you stick a slice of banana to a sheet of copper? Until a few months ago, you couldn’t. But a new discovery called “hard-soft electroadhesion” enables chemists to stick ...

In recent years, we've seen electroadhesion utilized in everything from wall-climbing robots to soft robotic grippers. And while some of those applications have involved bonding hard materials to ...

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More than two years ago SRI International was marching robots up walls using little more than static electricity. Today, they’ve moved onto bigger and better things, like gripping a banana using the ...

If you’re a fan of arts and crafts, you’re likely familiar with the messy, sticky, frustration-inducing nature of liquid glues. But researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces now have ...

Engineers have created a micro-robot with sticky feet that can climb up, down and all around in narrow, complex spaces. The tiny-robot, called HAMR-E (Harvard Ambulatory Micro-Robot with ...

Drone advocates predict that the unmanned aerial vehicles will become indispensable in many settings, such as disaster situations, by taking video to assess environmental conditions or chemical ...

If you're a fan of arts and crafts, you're likely familiar with the messy, sticky, frustration-inducing nature of liquid glues. But researchers now have a brand-new way to weld squishy stuff together ...