The latest viral clip of a faceless android twitching under its own power has pushed humanoid robotics into a new, unsettling register. Instead of a metal frame in a lab, viewers are watching ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

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 ...

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

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

Engineers have long tried to build artificial muscles that work like the ones in the human body—strong, flexible, fast, and ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

Researchers at Seoul National University have developed an artificial muscle that can change shape ...

NUS scientists have developed a self-training method that strengthens lab-grown muscle tissues around the clock, and used them to power a living-muscle robot that swims faster than any of its ...

Because the pumps and actuators are manufactured in a fiber-like geometry, they can be arranged in various configurations ...

Silent Artificial Muscles: A team of researchers has developed artificial muscles that function just like human muscles.