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

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.

STAMP revolutionizes muscle fiber alignment on hydrogels using 3D-printed stamps, enhancing soft robotics and tissue ...

We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align ...

A team of MIT researchers recently created the first synthetic muscle actuator that can flex in multiple directions. This ...

Now, MIT engineers have taken a major step toward developing robots that replace rigid gears with something much softer – ...

If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a ...