In a laboratory in Connecticut, a palm-sized silicone robot scrunches up its body to inch forward in a caterpillar-like motion. A brick tips over onto its leg, trapping it as it struggles to move on.

A doctor performed the amputation after the man suffered from body integrity identity disorder and had a “traumatizing” sensation that the two healthy fingers didn’t belong to his body Vanessa Etienne ...

Roboticists at The Faboratory at Yale University have developed a way for soft robots to replicate some of the more unsettling things that animals and insects can accomplish — say, a reptile ...