The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

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

Now, a California startup called Generalist AI is showing us something different. The company just released GEN-1, a new ...

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

Because the pumps and actuators are manufactured in a fiber-like geometry, they can be arranged in various configurations ...

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

An Arizona State University research team is working to develop stronger, lighter and more versatile robots. The researchers ...

A new robotic breakthrough out of South Korea may soon turn your clothes into assistive tech. Researchers have found a way to mass-produce ultra-thin "fabric muscles" that can flex and lift like human ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

The commercialization of clothing-type wearable robots has taken a significant step forward with the development of equipment that can continuously and automatically weave ultra-thin shape memory ...

Despite decades of technological progress, robots still can’t move as smoothly as humans – they drop objects, and struggle to ...