The day is coming when you may walk past a robot and have no idea it was a robot. Over years of engineering, we've given ...

A lightweight robotic device that facilitates neuromuscular recovery in children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), helping ...

Imagine a rubber band that turns into a steel cable on command. Now imagine it’s inside a robot. That’s the basic trick of a new artificial muscle built by researchers at the Ulsan National Institute ...

A wearable robot weighing just under one kilogram improves knee function in children living with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA ...

Chinese scientists have developed a wearable rehabilitation robot that can help children with severe muscular atrophy to ...

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 ...

An interdisciplinary student research team at the University of Waterloo has achieved an advance in materials science with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers are using the human body as inspiration in the next generation of robots. It's like anatomy, but electronic.

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 ...

Future robots could soon have a lot more muscle power. Northwestern University engineers have developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new ...

A new application for an old super-material has allowed researchers to start building real artificial muscles, though they can be several thousands of times stronger than any human! Share on Facebook ...

Researchers created tough hydrogel artificial tendons, attached them to lab-grown muscle to form a muscle-tendon unit, then linked the tendons to a robotic gripper's fingers. (Nanowerk News) Our ...