Discover how connected but independent units find their way toward the light without communicating! The article published in Advanced Functional Materials explains how cooperation emerges from implicitly shared information. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

A surprise gift of « new curve crease origami » we call Lacrygami brought to us by a single cell (this is the first example of origami in a single cell)!! Will write a longer thread shortly describing our journey to discovery - in mean time, enjoy this beautiful cell.

The function of an engine is to produce motion. In the first century AD, Hero of Alexandria described a steam engine. Set wood on fire. The fire boils water into steam. The steam escapes as jets. The jets meet the air to cause a force. The force rotates a sphere.

Cant forget to promote my latest editorial, recapping some recent twitter "drama" about what constitutes "science" and relating to this month's special issue... Link to article: cell.com/matter/fulltex…

I’m super excited to share my lab's most recent collaboration with even in a paper in Glass Structures & Engineering: Additive manufacturing of interlocking glass masonry units link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Petra Vastenhouw wrote a beautiful interview piece about my time at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where I worked with Samuel Gollob, Ellen Roche MIT and Kaitlyn Becker on autonomous soft robots. 🦠🪼 What did I find? Interactions are key, both for robots and among us researchers 🤝 AMOLF amolf.nl/news/alberto-c…

Excited to represent Soft Robotic Matter AMOLF at #APSSummit25 tomorrow. If you are at American Physical Society Anaheim, do check our work on ciliary walkers 🐙 with Paul Baconnier Bas Overvelde Alberto Comoretto summit.aps.org/events/MAR-B63…

#A #SoftRobot powered only by air achieves rapid, coordinated movement—walking, hopping, and swimming—without any brain, electronics, or AI, relying solely on body physics and environmental interaction. AMOLF @sciencemagazine techxplore.com/news/2025-05-b…

And relatively speaking, it's faster than a Ferrari. trib.al/Iz73upV

This totally tubular robot doesn’t need a centralized processing system to hop around on land or swim in the water—it relies instead on air and simple physics. That and more of the best from Science Magazine and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: science.org/content/articl…

Este robot blando no piensa con la cabeza, sino con los «pies». 🤖 Un equipo de ingenieros crea un robot blando capaz de caminar, saltar y nadar de forma autónoma sin necesidad de cerebro ni de procesadores ni de inteligencia artificial. 🌬️Funciona solo con tubos flexibles, una

Dutch scientists built a brainless soft robot that runs on air arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…

Using only airflow and simple physical design—resulting in a structure that looks like a roadside “inflatable tube dancer”—researchers in Science have developed soft robots that achieve coordinated, autonomous movement without relying on complex electronic controllers.

Great podcast about our latest article on Science (Science Magazine) by The Naked Scientists! 🧪 🐙🎧 Listen: thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/short… 📝 Article: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…