A robot made of magnetic slime with a custard-like consistency can navigate narrow passages, grasp objects and fix broken circuits. It could be deployed inside the body to perform tasks such as ...

The appropriately named "magnetic slime robot" doesn't need any internal electronics -- it's a combination of several different materials, allowing it to be controlled with external magnetic fields.

Klaus-Peter Zauner of the University of Southampton, UK, developed a six-legged robot that is remotely controlled by Physarum polycephalum—a yellow slime that inhabits moist places, moves away ...

A bright yellow slime mould that can grow to several metres in diameter has been put in charge of a scrabbling, six-legged robot. The Physarum polycephalum slime, which naturally shies away from ...

You probably don't think of a magnetically controlled slime robot slithering through your gastrointestinal tract and swallowing objects, like some kind of sci-fi ooze. But that's the exact idea ...

I’m talking with researchers from the medical school, surgeons … and whether we can really use this slime robot as kind of an extra hand for a surgeon, so what’s the meaning of an invisible ...

As seen in New Scientist, a magnet-based slime could reduce the invasiveness of some surgeries. The researchers aimed to combine the benefits of elastic and fluid-based soft robots. Their magnetic ...

Scientists at Tampere University in Finland and Anhui Jianzhu University in China have developed a donut-shaped micro-robot made of a special elastomer that can move in viscous liquids when ...

Or how about Tom Hardy's alter ego in "Venom"? Believe it or not, that venom symbiote now exists in real life! The black magnetic slime robot was formed at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It's ...