New ME-SOFS sensor lets soft robots sense touch and respond instantly without electronics, computers or external power.

While the AI boom has made robots significantly more capable, the accompanying safety infrastructure has struggled to keep ...

Built from flexible, compliant materials, soft robots are gaining relevance for tasks ranging from minimally invasive surgery ...

Fast identification of bacteria is important in health care, food safety, environmental monitoring and infection control. One ...

A browser-based simulator for a differential-drive line-following robot. Students write firmware in Blockly; the simulator compiles it to JavaScript and runs it against a 60 Hz Rapier2D physics world ...

A school visit to Delhi’s Sundar Nursery turned into an innovation journey for 17-year-old Mahi Malhani. The teen girl was disappointed after seeing scattered around despite the presence of dustbins.

On a school trip to Delhi’s Sundar Nursery in 2023, Mahi Malhani was trying to take in the heritage park’s history and restoration. But her attention kept returning to something else: wrappers, ...