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Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

It is not every day that a robot takes its cues from the quiet persistence of a climbing vine; still, that’s exactly where engineers at MIT and Stanford found inspiration for a breakthrough in soft ...

MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure that pulls both concentrically and radially, much like how the iris in the human eye acts to dilate and constrict the pupil. We move thanks ...

In nature, there are vines that have the strength to pull down fences and tree branches through their unrelenting hold. Today, engineers from the MIT and Stanford organizations have been able to ...

In context: Making robots more biologically compatible has been a challenge scientists have been tackling for years. Until now, they have primarily been able to create lab-grown muscle fibers that ...