This octopus-inspired smart skin can change shape and reveal hidden secrets on command.

Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change ...

Studying the chemo-mechanical waves of starfish oocytes, scientists have used optogenetics to control how a single cell moves during its earliest stage of development. The waves play “a key role in ...

Researchers at University of Galway have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during ...

Formless 'slime' robots that shape-change to complete complex tasks – it sounds like science fantasy. However, MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning technique that brings shape-changing ...