This approach removes a major limitation in soft robotics. Traditional fluid-driven systems rely on “heavy, bulky, oftentimes ...

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 ...

GREENWICH, Conn., April 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- O'Shaughnessy Ventures LLC (OSV), an investment firm that empowers creators, has awarded an O'Shaughnessy Fellowship to Joshua Ince, a chemist and ...

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

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

Scientists in the US have developed a new type of air-powered artificial muscles that ...

The small, disembodied robot leg was shown hopping over grass, sand and rocks in a video released alongside a new study in Nature Communications.The researchers hope the technology can be used in the ...

Researchers at Arizona State University have developed bio-inspired artificial “muscles” that enable robots to lift up to 100 ...

Researchers created tough hydrogel artificial tendons, attached them to lab-grown muscle to form a muscle-tendon unit, then linked the tendons to a robotic gripper's fingers. (Nanowerk News) Our ...

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 ...

Our muscles are nature’s actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate “biohybrid robots” made ...