A humanoid robot has reached new depths of the uncanny valley with its smooth, humanlike movements. Chinese electric vehicle ...

In a groundbreaking leap for robotics, scientists have developed artificial muscles that can empower humanoid robots to lift weights previously ...

This dual cross-linking design lets the muscle switch stiffness on demand. In lab tests, its stiffness jumps from about 213 ...

Elastomer “muscles” and a bionic spine made the robot so lifelike that it’s forcing a rethink of how closely machines can ...

Forget the cold, metal robots of science fiction. At Georgia Tech, scientists are building something very different—machines ...

Researchers from MIT and Harvard say they are on their way to creating robots with “superpowers.” Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Harvard’s ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed artificial muscles that contain microbubbles and can be controlled with ultrasound. In the future, these ...

Most robots rely on rigid, bulky parts that limit their adaptability, strength, and safety in real-world environments. Researchers developed soft, battery-powered artificial muscles inspired by human ...

STORY: What if robots had artificial muscles? That's the challenge scientists from ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have decided to take on. :: GFX: FUTURE OF HEALTH ...

We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align in one direction, others form intricate patterns, helping parts of the ...