“If muscles are nature’s motors, tendons are the drive shafts—and MIT just built a better one.” That’s how one researcher ...

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

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 ...

MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure that pulls both concentrically and radially, much like how the iris in the human eye acts to dilate and constrict the pupil. We move thanks ...

Biohybrid robots that run on real muscle are shifting from science fiction toward workable machines. In labs around the world, engineers have built tiny walkers, swimmers and gripping devices powered ...

Researchers have achieved a tremendous breakthrough in the field of soft robotics, creating a bot using water-based hydrogen material, so as to allow it to be patterned, folded, and manipulated to ...