Fish muscle signals can reveal movement, sense water flow & improve robot swimming, offering a way to design smarter ...

Researchers at the Intelligent Biomimetic Design Lab at Peking University have developed a bio-signal framework showing that fish muscles do far more than generate swimming motion. In a series of ...

A new artificial muscle can change shape, repair damage, and be reused, bringing a major shift in how robots are built and ...

A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far ...

For centuries, people tried to build ornithopters that flapped like birds, but none became a practical path to human flight.

Scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg have created intelligent materials that change shape and mechanical properties when exposed to light. By linking molecular machines into ...

Robotic muscles contracting from light pulses and cube-shaped 3D screens may emerge from tiny molecular machines linked into ...

Brothers Zuo Yuyu and Zuo Jing amassed a hard-earned fortune from making an early bet on robot components and building their ...

In the research world, Casey Harrell is known by subject name T-15. He's become a test case, and a point of hope, for people ...

On a crisp Sunday morning, the starting gun rang out at an innovation zone on the southeastern outskirts of Beijing. More than 100 humanoid robotic runners clattered across the starting line, their ...

Norway is, by almost any metric, a profoundly successful nation. It’s rich, democratic and relatively corruption-free. It’s ...

Photon-driven nanorobots can steer, capture, and move bacteria with precision, enabling controlled manipulation in ...