Artificial muscle hits 91% recovery, self-heals after damage
Researchers at Seoul National University have developed an artificial muscle that can change shape during operation, repair damage,…
A new type of electrically driven artificial muscle fiber | MIT News
Muscles are remarkably effective systems for generating controlled force, and engineers developing hardware for robots or prosthetics have…
4D-printed ‘programmable smart skin’ morphs shape, hides information
Researchers at Penn State have developed a new fabrication method that allows a programmable “smart synthetic skin” to…
Programmable soft materials enable smarter, direction-based robotics
A new class of soft, programmable composites that can twist, stiffen, and move differently depending on direction may…
3D-printed magnetic origami robots deliver medicine
By infusing rubber-like elastomers with ferromagnetic particles, the team at North Carolina State University produced a flexible magnetic…
DNA ‘flower’ robots react to environment and deliver drugs
These ‘DNA flowers’ were developed by a team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and…
Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments
Arm actions Twelve arm actions were identified from 15 behaviors with a total of 3,907 actions recorded from…