“Muscles never clamp directly onto bone.” This anatomical truth, as simple as it sounds, has become the blueprint for a leap ...

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.

A new robotic breakthrough out of South Korea may soon turn your clothes into assistive tech. Researchers have found a way to mass-produce ultra-thin "fabric muscles" that can flex and lift like human ...

What would it take to make a humanoid convincingly believable and only to find that a couple of millimeters of silicone at ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the past, muscle-powered robots either moved constantly without clear control or were too weak to respond visibly. Our strengthened skeletal muscle allows the robot to react clearly to an external ...

A lightweight robotic device has helped children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) achieve a ...

To create a safer, more practical robot, Professor Ryan Truby and his team developed a soft, flexible actuator that enables robots to move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle. To ...

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 ...

Warehouse work is intense, repetitive and physically demanding. Kinisi Robotics, a U.S.-based startup, wants to change that. Its newest innovation, the Kinisi 01, also known as KR1, is a powerful ...