The machine overlords of our dystopian future may have more in common with Gumby than the Terminator, if the field of "soft robotics" continues to expand. New Scientist reports that George Whitesides ...

Pliable bricks that stick together like Lego could be the ultimate play set for advanced robotics. George Whitesides and his colleagues at Harvard University have developed a range of soft robots, ...

Lego is one of life's great pleasures. Solid, dependable, honest. Now someone has gone an invented a bendable robot brick which can potentially use itself to build itself. So that's another childhood ...

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