Researchers at the Intelligent Biomimetic Design Lab at Peking University have developed a bio-signal framework showing that ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...