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 ...

This crazy goo may have a whole range of potential uses, ranging from new medical applications to supporting green energy production or being used in robotics. The slime was developed by ...

Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists have constructed 'odd' objects ...

The game in question put a slime mold organism in an "arena" of agar. The students then guided the mold's movements by depositing food, in the form of oatmeal droplets, via a robotic system.