From a technology standpoint, the innovation addresses a key limitation in soft robotics and smart materials: achieving ...

Researchers have developed a 3D printing strategy to create programmable artificial muscles. Harvard’s SEAS ...

Harvard researchers have developed a rotational multimaterial 3D printing technique to create programmable filaments that mimic biological muscles by bending, twisting, expanding, or contracting when ...

Breaking away from conventional robots that perform only predefined functions once fabricated, researchers have developed a ...

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 ...

Roboticists have been motivated by a long-standing goal to make robots safer. The new actuator could be used to develop inexpensive, soft, flexible robots which are safer and more practical for ...

Soft robots have long promised something rigid machines cannot easily deliver. They offer the ability to bend, flex, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humanoid robots have glimmered on the tech horizon for half a century, but each new prototype still triggers Masahiro Mori’s ...

Engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting -- just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the ...