If you've already designed a soft-bodied robot, it kind of defeats the purpose if you just go and stick a rigid motor inside ...

Engineers at EPFL in Switzerland have built a flexible motor that looks like a ...

EPFL’s flexible FiberMotor could spread force through clothing, but strength, durability and power hardware remain hurdles ...

Dublin, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- "Advanced Materials for Soft Robotics and Electronics Market: Focus on Application, Product, and Country-Level Analysis - Analysis and Forecast, 2026-2035" ...

In 2023, researchers in the Soft Transducers Laboratory in EPFL's School of Engineering presented the world's first pump in ...

Engineers have developed a flexible motor just a few millimeters thick. Made of two nested fibers wrapped with electrodes, the device produces enough force to drive soft robotic systems.

Long considered the Achilles’ heel of hand prosthetics (weight, mechanical fragility, assembly complexity), the joint may just have found its solution: making it disappear altogether, by programming ...

Asia-Pacific leads as wearables and smart textiles drive demand; silver-based materials and printable inks dominate, while healthcare, 6G and soft robotics unlock new opportunities.Dublin, Oct. (GLOBE ...

A flexible electrostatic motor just 1–3 mm thick could eventually power wearable robots, assistive clothing and lightweight ...

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EPFL's thread-like FiberMotor delivers linear motion for soft robots and smart textiles without bulky gears or rigid ...

Researchers have created a flexible memristor based on hexagonal boron nitride whose synaptic strength is programmed directly by bending, mimicking the mechanosensitive synapses of the neuromuscular ...