Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

The phrase "robotic exosuit" likely calls to mind something metallic, rigid, and hinged—Iron Man's suit or the dozens of ...

Roboticists have been motivated by a long-standing goal to make robots safer. The new actuator could be used to develop inexpensive, soft, flexible robots which are safer and more practical for ...

On the Moon, taking a simple step could quietly damage your body. With weaker gravity, your muscles do less work, your bones carry less weight and, over time, both start to fade. That problem does not ...

“Muscles never clamp directly onto bone.” This anatomical truth, as simple as it sounds, has become the blueprint for a leap ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humanoid robots have glimmered on the tech horizon for half a century, but each new prototype still triggers Masahiro Mori’s ...

To create a safer, more practical robot, Professor Ryan Truby and his team developed a soft, flexible actuator that enables robots to move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle. To ...

Soft robots have a “cardiovascular” problem. While their bodies can deform and bend, their hearts, the pumps that keep them ...