You’d think that a robot arm made from air bags would sacrifice strength for being lightweight, but while Otherlabs’ prototype weighs in at just two pounds, it’s still strong enough to lift a human ...

Last Saturday, a giant robot unfolded its jointed inflatable arms in Red Hook to creep out into a lattice of temporary architecture. On entering the gallery, you first walked by the Forest of ...

When you think of robots, one quality that immediately springs to mind is superhuman strength, and that's something this new bot from iRobot definitely embodies. Developed for the Defense Advanced ...

The BYU Mechanical Engineering team stands in front of the presentation before the competition. The students of this team built an inflatable robot for lunar operations for NASA's challenge. (Jared ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, have developed an innovative inflatable robotic hand that allows upper limb amputees imme ...

Engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a vine-like robotic gripper that wraps around objects before gently ...

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Inflatable squishy tubes could be used to build soft robots that move when air is pushed through them. Robotic hands made from metal frequently end up crushing delicate objects like fruit when trying ...

Meet Ant-Roach, Otherlab’s pneumatic robot that weights 70 pounds and can support 1000 pounds of weight. It’s not the most mobile vehicle out there, but when’s the last time you were able to deflate a ...