Perhaps our future overlords won’t be made up of electrical circuits after all but will instead be soft-bodied ... gas into actuators in the arms. Those actuators expand like balloons causing ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft robot that moves in a distinctly ... The LCE is hereby designed as a thermal bimorph actuator, using a distinct thermal expansion ...

to stand in for conventional electromagnetic actuators in soft robots. Similar to biological muscles, these actuators have a hierarchical structure made up of microscale electrodes, electrode ...