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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Silent Artificial Muscles: A team of researchers has developed artificial muscles that mimic human muscles. These could ...

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 ...

Researchers developed 3D printed, muscle-inspired magnetic actuators that push, pull, crawl, and grasp. The research paper describes a family of soft actuators that convert applied magnetic fields ...

The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious job: open plastic bags on a conveyor belt and stuff ...