The Mariana Trench, the lowest point in the ocean on our planet, has also been problematic for scientists and engineers. More than 10,000 meters deep, the record pressure and sub-freezing temperatures ...

Researchers have created a tiny, shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides freely in the deep sea. Developed by a team at the Beihang University in China, the robot operated at a depth of 10 ...

A muscle from the slug's mouth helps the robot move, which is currently controlled by an external electrical field. Future iterations of the device will include ganglia – bundles of neurons and nerves ...

Argentina explores Mar del Plata Canyon for the first time: 40 new species are discovered and the country is captivated by ...

image: Sentry, an autonomous undersea vehicle, was used for the first time this month. The first scientific mission with Sentry, a newly developed robot capable of diving as deep as 5,000 meters (3.1 ...

Fossils of a marine animal that lived 500 million years ago, combined with computer simulations, informed the design of a new soft robot. Soft robotics is the study of creating robots from soft ...

Until now, when scientists and engineers have developed soft robots inspired by organisms, they’ve focused on modern-day living examples. For instance, we previously reported on soft robot ...