You’d think that a robot arm made from air bags would sacrifice strength for being lightweight, but while Otherlabs’ prototype weighs in at just two pounds, it’s still strong enough to lift a human ...

Last Saturday, a giant robot unfolded its jointed inflatable arms in Red Hook to creep out into a lattice of temporary architecture. On entering the gallery, you first walked by the Forest of ...

Introducing King Louie, the inflatable robot whose technology could one day be used in space or to help the elderly. Rough ...

I’VE ridden horseback before, but nothing could prepare me for riding a 5-metre-long balloon through a dusty pipe-organ factory. My mount, named AntRoach for its anteater-like nose and six legs, ...

When you think of robots, one quality that immediately springs to mind is superhuman strength, and that's something this new bot from iRobot definitely embodies. Developed for the Defense Advanced ...

The BYU Mechanical Engineering team stands in front of the presentation before the competition. The students of this team built an inflatable robot for lunar operations for NASA's challenge. (Jared ...

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MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the University of Notre Dame have developed a vine-like robot to aid disaster response. The Soft Pathfinding Robotic Observation Unit (SPROUT) can navigate through debris ...

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Meet Ant-Roach, Otherlab’s pneumatic robot that weights 70 pounds and can support 1000 pounds of weight. It’s not the most mobile vehicle out there, but when’s the last time you were able to deflate a ...