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The future of Soft Robots
- 12articles
- 2017first covered
- 28 Mar 2026latest update
- 6linked technologies
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Soft Robots goes mainstream around 2040
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- Researchers use 4D Printing to turn Sulfur into self moving soft robotsRobotics
- The world’s first Pneumatic computer works using pressure not electricityComputing
- Animal shaped morphing robots can deliver cancer drugs precisely where they’re neededBiotech and enhanced humans
- This new shape shifting material responds to lightIndustry and manufacturing
- Uber’s breakthrough problem solving AI learns by creating then solving its own problemsAI and intelligence
- Harvard’s new multi-material 3D printer makes printing soft robots faster and easierAI and intelligence
- Gallium “heartbeat” discovery gives re-configurable electronics a boostIndustry and manufacturing
- Revolutionary polymorphic liquid metal paves the way for shape shifting robotsIndustry and manufacturing
- BMW and MIT create the world’s first 3D printed inflatable materialIndustry and manufacturing
- Fantastic self-healing material regenerates after suffering “catastrophic damage”Industry and manufacturing
- Stab these soft robots and they’ll self-heal instantlyIndustry and manufacturing
- New synthetic muscle breakthrough will create better, nimbler robotsRobotics
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311 Institute has published 12 articles about Soft Robots since 2017, most recently on 28 March 2026.
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