MIT professor of materials science and engineering and brain and cognitive sciences Polina Anikeeva in her lab. (Image: Steph Stevens/McGovern Institute, MIT) New soft-bodied robots that can be controlled by a simple magnetic field are well suited to work in confined spaces. The robots, formed from rubbery magnetic spirals, can be programmed to walk, crawl, swim — all in response to a simple, easy-to-apply magnetic field.
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