Roboticists have been motivated by a long-standing goal to make robots safer. Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and ...

Artificial muscle tissue might sound like the work of science fiction, but that may not be the case anymore. As described in a recent paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems, researchers outline the ...

Are artificial muscles the future in robotics? This is a question what an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) hope to answer as they ...

The contraction process involves interactions between actin and myosin filaments within the sarcomeres to generate force. Recent research has achieved significant advances in functional design, ...

A new method allows large quantities of muscle stem cells to be safely obtained in cell culture. This provides a potential for treating patients with muscle diseases—and for those who would like to ...