Chemists have long been fascinated and frustrated by saxitoxin: a molecule that causes temporary paralysis by blocking the ...

MIT's new hydrogel tendons strengthen muscle-powered robots, achieving 11x higher power-to-weight ratio and improved force ...

New companies are building robots in record time ... and at record cost. Massive changes have made physical AI — giving AI a ...

Biohybrid robots that run on real muscle are shifting from science fiction toward workable machines. In labs around the world ...

Scientists at the University of Texas at Arlington, for example, have built a soft exoskeleton that fastens onto the arm and, ...

EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into robotic devices, leveraging the strength and flexibility of ...

Scientists have been working for years to create robots powered by living muscle tissue. These biohybrid robots combine ...

Artificial tendons make muscle-powered robots stronger and faster. They can last longer and work in tricky or dangerous places.

Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...

MIT engineers have pushed biohybrid robotics into a new era with lab-grown muscles that ...

Rather than pushing a futuristic, machine-forward aesthetic, XPENG leans into recognisable visual cues such as body shape, ...

As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can ...