A new steering-based control method enhances autonomous robot tracking accuracy in open environments, crucial for safety in chemical processing facilities.

According to its developers, the soft robot automatically bends, snaps and resets itself without a single electronic component, completing 188 continuous leaps in the lab.

"Robots can stop what they're doing and go over to assist another robot which has asked for help," Dimarogonas says. "This will mean flexible and dynamic robots that act much more like humans -- ...