Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body.

The cells grew along these grooves within the hydrogel, forming fibers. When the researchers stimulated the fibers, the muscle contracted in multiple directions, following the fibers’ orientation.

We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align in one direction, others form intricate patterns, helping parts of the ...

Biohybrid robots work by combining biological components like muscles, plant material, and even fungi with non-biological materials. While we are pretty good at making the non-biological parts ...

Artificial muscles for robots brought closer to reality with 3D-printed actuators. Jijo Malayil. Wed, March 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM UTC. 3 min read.

Creepy humanoid robot moves using 1,000 eerie artificial muscles Why this hanging robot has everyone buzzing. By Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report Fox News. Published March 11, 2025 6:00am EDT. ...

A groundbreaking development has come from researchers at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan. They've created a biohybrid hand, a fusion of lab-grown muscle tissue and ...

As always with these kind of anthropomorphic robots: Why? The human form is the result of evolution, a messy, unguided, inefficient process. There's no reason to replicate such a configuration ...

UK’s answer to DARPA backs synthetic muscles and e-skin in new robotics project ARIA has revealed new details on the agency's latest moonshot project February 20, 2025 - 3:03 pm ...

This wearable robot does the heavy lifting for you. Hyundai Motor and Kia’s “X-ble Shoulder” is a wearable robot designed to reduce fatigue and muscle strain for workers performing overhead ...

Researchers are using the human body as inspiration in the next generation of robots. It's like anatomy, but electronic. Electro-hydraulic muscles are more energy efficient than motor driven robots.