The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

The latest viral clip of a faceless android twitching under its own power has pushed humanoid robotics into a new, unsettling register. Instead of a metal frame in a lab, viewers are watching ...

A new artificial muscle can change shape, repair damage, and be reused, bringing a major shift in how robots are built and used.

Researchers at Seoul National University have developed an artificial muscle that can change shape ...

Engineers have long tried to build artificial muscles that work like the ones in the human body—strong, flexible, fast, and ...

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A new robotic breakthrough out of South Korea may soon turn your clothes into assistive tech. Researchers have found a way to mass-produce ultra-thin "fabric muscles" that can flex and lift like human ...

NUS scientists have developed a self-training method that strengthens lab-grown muscle tissues around the clock, and used them to power a living-muscle robot that swims faster than any of its ...

Breaking away from conventional robots that perform only predefined functions once fabricated, researchers have developed a ...

Our muscles are nature’s actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate “biohybrid robots” made ...

The commercialization of clothing-type wearable robots has taken a significant step forward with the development of equipment that can continuously and automatically weave ultra-thin shape memory ...