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Researchers at NC State University have created several soft robot devices that make use of a fundamental advance in controlling soft robots. The new technique uses magnetic fields to remotely manipulate microparticle chains embedded in soft polymers. Credit: Joe Tracy

A team of engineering researchers has made a fundamental advance in controlling so-called soft robots, using magnetic fields to remotely manipulate microparticle chains embedded in soft robotic devices. The researchers have already created several devices that make use of the new technique. “By putting these self-assembling chains into soft robots, we are able to have them perform more complex functions while still retaining relatively simple designs,” says A/Prof Joe Tracy, North Carolina State University ...