MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure that pulls both concentrically and radially, much like how the iris in the human eye acts to dilate and constrict the pupil. We move thanks ...

Soft robots demonstrate significant potential for applications in complex environments due to their remarkable flexibility; ...

It has been a long endeavor to create biohybrid robots – machines powered by lab-grown muscle as potential actuators. The flexibility of biohybrid robots could allow them to squeeze and twist through ...

A separate silicone rubber layer, embedded with neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) magnetic particles, is bonded to the PI-PAA film. This “triple-layer sandwich” provides a powerful trifecta of responses: ...

Swedish researchers have developed a breakthrough 3D printing method to create soft actuators. These dielectric elastic actuators (DEA) are made from silicone-based materials, combining conductive ...

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 parts of the ...

In a lab tucked away in Poland, a group of engineers is quietly redefining what it means to build a robot. Not with circuits ...

Demonstrating 3 times greater actuation stroke and 2 times higher work capacity than existing photochemical actuators, the new light-responsive springs outperform mammalian muscles and enable ...

A team of scientists at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) has succeeded in creating artificial muscles using 3D printing. The researchers hope that in the ...