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.

Schaeffler's Hermes Award-winning actuator platform targets the single costliest barrier to deploying humanoid robots at ...

Healthcare workers are often tasked with the physical labor of moving equipment and patients across sprawling hospital ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a soft robot that moves like an elephant's trunk—precise enough to pick fresh fruit, yet powerful ...

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

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 ...

Rather than replicating it directly, it’s more appropriate to use it as a source of ideas.” Humanoids face the same question.

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 ...