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

Muscles are remarkably effective systems for generating controlled force, and engineers developing hardware for robots or ...

Researchers at Seoul National University have developed an artificial muscle that can change shape ...

A new robotic breakthrough out of South Korea may soon turn your clothes into assistive tech. Researchers have found a way to mass-produce ultra-thin "fabric muscles" that can flex and lift like human ...

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

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab and Italy’s Politecnico di Bari have developed artificial muscle fibers that aim to match ...

Because the pumps and actuators are manufactured in a fiber-like geometry, they can be arranged in various configurations ...

BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Artimus Robotics has announced its newest generation of contracting HASEL actuators. Through continued improvements in material science and ...

Silent Artificial Muscles: A team of researchers has developed artificial muscles that function just like human muscles.

Assistant Professor Tan Yu Jun (right), PhD student Mr Zhou Jinrun (left), and their team from the National University of Singapore established a simple but ingenious method that produced lab-grown ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

NUS scientists have developed a self-training method that strengthens lab-grown muscle tissues around the clock, and used them to power a living-muscle robot that swims faster than any of its ...