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

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

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 ...

Muscles are remarkably effective systems for generating controlled force, and engineers developing hardware for robots or ...

Soft robots are only as capable as the artificial muscles that drive them, and for years those muscles have forced a trade-off between strength and flexibility. A new magnetic polymer design is ...

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 ...

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab and Italy’s Politecnico di Bari have developed artificial muscle fibers that aim to match ...

Soft robotics has been a promising field of research for years, but these squidgy and flexible creations have been held back by the absence of one important characteristic: strength. Now, scientists ...