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Robots walk straight off the 3D printer
Scientists create cheap, soft robots that move with compressed gas, no electronics, for use in tough places like space or disaster zones.

Liquid robot mimics living cells
Scientists create a soft robot that transforms, splits, and merges like cells, opening doors for medical and industrial uses.

Synthetic worms made of active matter exhibit life-like behaviors
Researchers have developed active matter: synthetic materials that can move on their own, much like worms.

Robots that act like living materials
Scientists create disk-shaped robots that use gears, magnets, and light to form stiff or flowing structures.

Tiny robots controlled by magnetic fields for targeted drug delivery
These tiny robots, around the size of a rice grain, are controlled by magnetic fields and are safe to use inside the body.

Shape-shifting soft machines
Combining 3D printing, flexible shape morphing and photoresponsivity may allow for radical new medical and other uses

Bioresorbable acoustic microrobots for precision drug delivery
A research team led by Caltech has made bioresorbable acoustic microrobots and successfully used these bots to shrink bladder tumors in mice.