Researchers at Columbia Engineering have solved a long-standing issue in the creation of untethered soft robots whose actions and movements can help mimic natural biological systems. A group in the ...

The team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder was inspired by organic muscles to develop the soft "actuators." The technology could streamline bulky metal androids and enable them to ...

I spent a good chunk of Saturday afternoon hanging out at the Homebrew Robotics Club booth at Maker Faire Bay area. They have a ton of really interesting robot builds on display and I just loved ...

Researchers have developed a low-voltage, muscle-like actuator that powers autonomous insect-scale robots with unprecedented force, speed, and efficiency. Published in Nature, the study introduces an ...

Oh, the poor humanoid robots. After decades of development, they're still less sprinty Terminator and more … octogenarian on sedatives. While these robots may look like us, they aren’t built like ...

Did you know that under the right conditions, nylon can be used as a type of artificial muscle? We certainly didn’t until we came across [Brandon T. Wood]’s Material Linear-Actuator for Robotics entry ...