Sacrificial ink-writing technique allows 3D printing of large, vascularized human organ building blocks 20 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant in the United States, and whil... Read more
A versatile, portable exosuit that assists both walking and running highlights the potential for lightweight and non-restrictive wearable robots outside the lab Between walking at a leisurel... Read more
Could open the door to new bioactive healing strategies External wounds such as skin cuts or abrasions can often be easily covered with a simple Band-Aid or a larger wound patch to protect t... Read more
Microfluidic Organ Chip model of human blood-brain barrier that recapitulates in vivo barrier functions offers new preclinical tool for development of brain-targeting therapeutics Like airpo... Read more
Replacing conventional pistons with compressible structures inside a membrane made of soft materials
300- year-old piston design reinvented with soft flexible materials can produce greater forces with higher energy efficiencies, and has potential for a plethora of applications Since their i... Read more
Researchers create new kind of robot composed of many simple particles with no centralized control or single point of failure The concept of “gray goo,” a robot comprised of billions of nano... Read more
Heart disease, stroke, sepsis, and cancer collectively cause the greatest number of deaths worldwide. They also have something else in common: all of them are associated with activated plate... Read more
Biocompatible sensor could be used in diagnostics, therapeutics, human-computer interfaces, and virtual reality Children born prematurely often develop neuromotor and cognitive developmental... Read more
New “HAMR-E” robots could enable inspection of complex machines without dismantling them Jet engines can have up to 25,000 individual parts, making regular maintenance a tedious task that ca... Read more
Solar panels for yeast cell biofactories Genetically engineered microbes such as bacteria and yeasts have long been used as living factories to produce drugs and fine chemicals. More recentl... Read more
Liquid-gated membrane filtration system improves industrial wastewater purification and saves energy Filtering and treating water, both for human consumption and to clean industrial and muni... Read more
A new, modular soft robotic arm gives deep-sea researchers better dexterity for embracing delicate sea life The human arm can perform a wide range of extremely delicate and coordinated movem... Read more
In the future, smart textile-based soft robotic exosuits could be worn by soldiers, fire fighters and rescue workers to help them traverse difficult terrain and arrive fresh at their destina... Read more
Genetic engineering allows different species of bacteria to communicate with each other in the gut of a living mouse, setting the stage for a synthetic microbiome More than 1,000 species of... Read more
A new approach for fabricating soft materials at the millimeter scale paves the way to a new generation of flexible microrobots for medical and environmental tasks Roboticists are envisionin... Read more
