Eels have a unique ability to move even after a spinal cord injury, a feat that has long puzzled scientists. An international research team led by Tohoku University has uncovered the secret behind ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology has developed a snake-like robot with a pretty unique mission in mind: searching for life on one of Saturn’s moons.

Overview of this study. (A) Schematic of the body and neural circuit model of elongated fish such as eels. (B) CAD image of the developed eel-like robot. (C) Our interdisciplinary approach combining ...

Despite residing in the frigid outer realm of our solar system where the Sun is just a faraway speck of light, icy moons like Saturn’s Enceladus and Jupiter’s Europa are considered some of the most ...

Icy ocean worlds like Europa or Enceladus are some of the most promising locations for finding extra-terrestrial life in the Solar System because they host liquid water. But to determine if there is ...

Imagine robots that crawl, slither, or swim through tight spaces, using nature's engineering to stay flexible and strong. The study, titled "Multisensory feedback makes swimming circuits robust ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are taking artificial intelligence to the next level — by sending it into space disguised as a robotic snake. With the sun beating down on JPL’s Mars Yard ...

An underwater robot developed by NTNU. This study first establishes a cylindrical dynamic model of dielectric elastomers to deeply analyze the deformation behavior of DEs under the action of electric ...