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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 ...

Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab with Politecnico di Bari, and at Princeton University, have separately developed soft robotics systems that integrate actuation directly into compact, flexible designs.

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 ...

The future of next-generation robots that move like living systems will be shaped by advances in molecular design ...

Robots that can sense touch and perceive temperature differences? An unexpected material might just make this a reality. Researchers are developing soft and intelligent sensor materials based on ...