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 ...

Fish muscle signals can reveal movement, sense water flow & improve robot swimming, offering a way to design smarter ...

Robotic muscles contracting from light pulses and cube-shaped 3D screens may emerge from tiny molecular machines linked into ...

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

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology here have developed a wearable device that can control robotic ...

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 ...

Four development milestones released: camera-based gesture control, environmental haptic feedback, sEMG real-time hand tracking, and ...

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

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed 3D-printed, light-activated artificial muscles using liquid crystal elastomers embedded with gold nanorods. The actuators bend, crawl, ...

On a crisp Sunday morning, the starting gun rang out at an innovation zone on the southeastern outskirts of Beijing. More than 100 humanoid robotic runners clattered across the starting line, their ...