Think of each robot as a tiny magnetic brick. Using a process similar to making ice cubes, researchers can produce hundreds of these robots simultaneously in a cost-effective way.

We try building our first Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot, and make some decent headway.

Soft robots can grasp irregular shaped objects much like a human hand is by simply conforming to the shape of the object. The scientists say that they can program these soft robots to carry out ...