A research paper by scientists at Tianjin University presented an earthworm-inspired multimodal pneumatic continuous soft robot enhanced by wire-winding transmission. The research paper, published on ...

(Nanowerk News) For decades, scientists have envisioned a future where nimble robots could traverse rugged terrain and squeeze into tight spaces, ideal for search and rescue missions, industrial ...

Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have created a soft robot inspired by earthworms that has promising utility in underground exploration, excavation, search and rescue ...

Now researchers at MIT, Harvard University and Seoul National University have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its ...

On a rainy day, you'll often see lots of earthworms on sidewalks and roads. But what makes the worms crawl away from the safety of the soil when it's raining? Some people assume worms come to the ...

The earthworm has long been considered the farmer’s friend. Their burrowing has always been thought to aerate the soil while their d Most people don’t realize that many of the earthworms in our soils ...