artificial muscles

Another take on artificial muscles shows promise

A short electric pulse is all it takes to generate and release a powerful vacuum

One step closer to artificial muscles with gel-based robotics

Scientists are one step closer to artificial muscles. Orthotics have come a long way since

New artificial muscles for soft robots can lift over 1000 times their own weight

  Origami-inspired muscles are both soft and strong, and can be made for less than

Artificial soft robotic muscle lifts 1000 times its own weight

A self-contained soft actuator three times stronger than natural muscle, without the need of externals,

New stimuli-responsive materials can be used in memory devices, artificial muscles and drug delivery systems

Scientists at Nagoya University have developed a new way to make stimuli-responsive materials in a

Artificial muscles without using expensive materials

MIT engineers find a simple and inexpensive new approach to creating bending artificial muscle fibers

Scientists Put a New Twist on Artificial Muscles

In recent years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and colleagues at the

Hybrid polymers could lead to new concepts in self-repairing materials, drug delivery and artificial muscles

Imagine a polymer with removable parts that can deliver something to the environment and then

Rubber lasers, liquid crystal elastomer material, with incredible properties

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), essentially rubbers with liquid crystal properties, can do a number of

New hydrogel stretches and contracts like a heat-driven muscle

In research published in Nature Materials, a team led by scientists from the RIKEN Center

Scientists Stretch Electrically Conducting Fibers to New Lengths

Researchers Wrap Nanotubes Around Rubber Core Sparking a Creation That May Lead to Artificial Muscles,

Artificial muscles get graphene boost

Researchers in South Korea have developed an electrode consisting of a single-atom-thick layer of carbon

Cambridge breakthrough in artifical muscle research

For the first time, materials displaying muscle ‘memory’ have been developed The importance of muscle

The heart circulates blood as if it were wringing a towel. The bottom twists in a counterclockwise direction while the top twists clockwise. On the right is the team's model of the heart, showing tube-like pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) that mimic the heart's striated muscle fibers. Credit: Harvard's Wyss Institute and SEAS.
Another Soft Robotics Breakthrough: Artificial muscles that do the twist

“It could inspire a whole new class of cardiac therapies, such as improved ventricular assist

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UT Dallas-led team makes powerful muscles from fishing line and sewing thread

An international team led by The University of Texas at Dallas has discovered that ordinary