MIT engineers have made a breakthrough in this area—they’ve developed a method to grow muscle tissue that contracts in ...

As a demonstration, they grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure that pulls both concentrically and radially, much like ...

The human body moves through a coordinated effort of skeletal muscles, working in concert to generate force. While some ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than ...

The flexibility of biohybrid robots could allow them to squeeze and twist through areas that are too small or complex.

Scientists at MIT have created a new kind of artificial muscle that can flex and move in multiple directions, much like real ...