Engineers have long tried to build artificial muscles that work like the ones in the human body—strong, flexible, fast, and ...

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

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

Researchers at Arizona State University are developing bio-inspired robotic "muscles" that will enable robots to operate in ...

Imagine a rubber band that turns into a steel cable on command. Now imagine it’s inside a robot. That’s the basic trick of a new artificial muscle built by researchers at the Ulsan National Institute ...

Joshua Ince awarded an O'Shaughnessy Fellowship to develop low-cost, lightweight artificial muscles for robotics and prosthetics GREENWICH, Conn., April 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- O'Shaughnessy Ventures ...

Most robots rely on rigid, bulky parts that limit their adaptability, strength, and safety in real-world environments. Researchers developed soft, battery-powered artificial muscles inspired by human ...

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 ...

The small, disembodied robot leg was shown hopping over grass, sand and rocks in a video released alongside a new study in Nature Communications.The researchers hope the technology can be used in the ...

Researchers created tough hydrogel artificial tendons, attached them to lab-grown muscle to form a muscle-tendon unit, then linked the tendons to a robotic gripper's fingers. (Nanowerk News) Our ...

Future robots could soon have a lot more muscle power. Northwestern University engineers have developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new ...

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 ...