Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swedish researchers have developed a breakthrough 3D printing method to create soft actuators. These dielectric elastic actuators ...

Soft robots have long promised something rigid machines cannot easily deliver. They offer the ability to bend, flex, and ...

Several research groups across the United States and Europe have demonstrated that 3D-printed artificial muscles can replicate biological movements such as contracting, twisting, and lifting, bringing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been a long endeavor to create biohybrid robots – machines powered by lab-grown muscle as potential actuators. The ...

(Nanowerk News) We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align in one direction, others form intricate patterns, helping ...

Roboticists have been motivated by a long-standing goal to make robots safer. The new actuator could be used to develop inexpensive, soft, flexible robots which are safer and more practical for ...

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

Researchers in South Korea have developed a soft, reprogrammable artificial muscle that can reshape itself during operation, recover from damage, and be reused. Using a phase-transitional ferrofluid ...

Engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting -- just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the ...