Muscle isn’t the only place where nature has solved the problem of coordinating many tiny motors. Microscopic flagella are ...

Students recently unveiled their invention of a robotic actuator -- the 'muscle' that converts energy into a robot's physical movement -- that has the ability to detect punctures or pressure, heal the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a world first, China has taken further strides in showcasing its prowess in robotics and artificial intelligence after a ...

The day is coming when you may walk past a robot and have no idea it was a robot. Over years of engineering, we've given robots skeletons, brains, senses, and even a nervous system. Muscles have ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) have developed a paper-thin robotic actuator inspired by the way human muscles work. Designed to mimic the behavior of myosin ...

In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like ...

Scientists have developed a self-training method that strengthens lab-grown muscle tissues around the clock, and used them to power a living-muscle robot that swims faster than any of its predecessors ...