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, ...

The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is a collection of organs and structures inside the bodies of humans and other animals that is responsible for the digestion of food, the absorption of nutrients and ...

The treatment of gastrointestinal and urinary system diseases has long been plagued by limitations of traditional drug delivery methods, such as low drug concentration at target sites, lack of ...

Tiny magnetic bots that are activated by light can clear bacterial infections deep in the sinus cavities, then be expelled by blowing out the nose. Sinusitis is a common respiratory condition often ...

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore have developed a seed-sized surgical robot that can switch between five different functions in less than a second, offering a potential ...

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 ...

(A) Bioinspiration from natural jellyfish and multifunctional capabilities of the jellyfish-inspired magnetic soft robot (J-MSR) platform. (B) Comparison of the speed and the density between our ...

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ...

A flexible magnetic soft robot using magnetorheological fluids navigates the gastrointestinal tract, folds to fit narrow passages, and delivers drugs to targeted lesion sites. (Nanowerk News) ...

Magnetic miniature robots hold great potential for minimally invasive biomedical applications due to their small size and biocompatibility. However, single-modal robots face challenges in complex ...