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Anime-inspired robotics reshape real-world engineering and design

From humanoid robots at Tokyo airports to mecha-scale machines like ARCHAX, engineers are increasingly drawing on anime aesthetics and storytelling to guide real-world robotics design. These projects ...
Tech Xplore

Programmable 3D-printed filaments mimic artificial muscles with heat-driven bending and twisting

Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil—from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant trunks that can pick up a peanut but also take down a tree.
C&EN

Soft Perfusable Device to Culture Skeletal Muscle 3D Constructs in Air

The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, 56127 Pisa, Italy Department of Excellence in Robotics & AI, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Piazza Martiri della ...
WROC-TV

Digital artist turns nostalgia into 3D animations of Rochester

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — What inspires your hobby? For Efrain Ramos-Peña, it’s Rochester, nostalgia, and a love for animation. Efrain, known on Instagram as Rodeobot, makes 3D animations of iconic ...
Runner's World

Fast twitch vs. slow twitch muscles: Here’s the difference – and it’s not just about endurance vs. sprinting

When you picture different athletes – marathon runners, gymnasts and Olympic weightlifters, for example – you likely categorise them instinctively by their height, size and build. But what makes these ...