Things can get very chaotic on the ocean floor, making it difficult for underwater robots to keep from being swept away. New research, however, suggests that by copying the structure of the starfish, ...

Soft robotics, which uses flexible and deformable materials, is an emerging field in autonomous systems. It has recently been applied to next-generation tasks such as deep-sea sampling with soft ...

Seoul National University of Science and Technology has mimicked the tiny feet of starfish to make tiny grippers for underwater ‘soft’ robots. Gecko feet have already done something similar for out-of ...

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