Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have invented a new jelly material that mimics biological matter such as skin, ligaments and bone, and which is very strong, self-hea... Read more
Wearing a flower brooch that blooms before your eyes sounds like magic. KAIST researchers have made it real with robotic muscles. Researchers have developed an ultrathin, artificial muscle f... Read more
If Star Wars’ R2-D2 is your idea of a robot, think again. Researchers led by a University of Houston engineer have reported a new class of soft robot, composed of ultrathin sensing, actuatin... Read more
A self-contained soft actuator three times stronger than natural muscle, without the need of externals, signals a breakthrough in soft robotics. Researchers at Columbia Engineering have solv... Read more
Soft actuator could be ‘holy grail’ for soft robotics Soft robots do a lot of things well but they’re not exactly known for their speed. The artificial muscles that move soft robots, called... Read more
Engineers at NUS have discovered “robotic” muscles that can carry loads 80 times their own weight and stretch to five times the original length with the load. These new artificial muscles co... Read more
Enabling the artificial muscles to lift more than 100,000 times their own weight and generate 85 times more mechanical power during contraction than mammalian skeletal muscles of comparable... Read more
Flexible design enables body-morphing capability Earthworms creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each... Read more
They are capable of delivering higher torque, require low currents instead of high “Perhaps the earliest public demonstration of an electric motor,” writes a team of researchers... Read more