In research published in Nature Materials, a team led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan has developed a new hydrogel that works like an artificial musc... Read more
For the first time, materials displaying muscle ‘memory’ have been developed The importance of muscle memory cannot be understated. A flautist repeatedly practising a sonata may initially st... Read more
Enabling the artificial muscles to lift more than 100,000 times their own weight and generate 85 times more mechanical power during contraction than mammalian skeletal muscles of comparable... Read more
They are capable of delivering higher torque, require low currents instead of high “Perhaps the earliest public demonstration of an electric motor,” writes a team of researchers... Read more
The yarns are reportedly simple and inexpensive to make We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the possibility of treating medical conditions using nanobots – tiny robots that wou... Read more