The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

Now, a California startup called Generalist AI is showing us something different. The company just released GEN-1, a new ...

Muscles are remarkably effective systems for generating controlled force, and engineers developing hardware for robots or ...

The field of soft robotics has taken a significant leap forward with the development of electrofluidic fiber muscles by researchers at the MIT Media Lab. Traditional robotic actuators depends on bulky ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A new robotic breakthrough out of South Korea may soon turn your clothes into assistive tech. Researchers have found a way to mass-produce ultra-thin "fabric muscles" that can flex and lift like human ...

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 ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

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