Continuum robots combine flexible bodies with limited actuators, making precise control difficult as friction, hysteresis, incomplete sensing, external contact, model trade-offs, and design diversity continually alter their shape during operation.
By Ankit Singh
20 Oct 2026
Hydrogels act as sensors and actuators in soft robots, enabling crawling, swimming, grasping, and pressure detection through electrical, thermal, optical, and magnetic responses across biomedical and industrial applications.
By Samudrapom Dam
13 Oct 2026
Deep-sea robotics combines pressure-tolerant housings, bioinspired soft designs, acoustic navigation, efficient energy systems, and onboard autonomy to explore, sample, and inspect cold, dark, high-pressure ocean environments with reduced human support.
By Ankit Singh
6 Oct 2026
Shape-memory alloys use heat-driven phase changes to contract like muscles, powering compact robotic grippers, wearable devices, and soft actuators while facing limits from cooling speed, efficiency, fatigue, and hysteresis.
By Ankit Singh
29 Sep 2026
Builder robots could grade lunar terrain, sinter regolith tiles, stack shielding berms, and extract resources, enabling supervised construction of landing pads and base infrastructure before astronauts arrive.
By Ankit Singh
22 Sep 2026