The robots run on a hydraulic system powered by a compact pump, called a “hydraulic heart,” which uses water to move the ...

Warehouse work is intense, repetitive and physically demanding. Kinisi Robotics, a U.S.-based startup, wants to change that. Its newest innovation, the Kinisi 01, also known as KR1, is a powerful ...

This group of 'cockroaches' comes from the College of Engineering at West Lake University, cultivated in the lab of Chair ...

It has been a long endeavor to create biohybrid robots – machines powered by lab-grown muscle as potential actuators. The flexibility of biohybrid robots could allow them to squeeze and twist through ...

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in robotics by designing the first robotic leg equipped with “artificial muscles,” allowing the machine to move more like a human than previously possible. The ...

According to the Science and Technology Daily, a research team from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, and other institutions has successfully developed a new type ...

To create a safer, more practical robot, Professor Ryan Truby and his team developed a soft, flexible actuator that enables robots to move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle. To ...

Future robots could soon have a lot more muscle power. Northwestern University engineers have developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new ...

Researchers are using the human body as inspiration in the next generation of robots. It's like anatomy, but electronic. Electro-hydraulic muscles are more energy efficient than motor driven robots.

University of Texas researches have created a form of “shape memory wire” that expands and contracts when cooled and heated. To make the muscles contract, they coat it in a catalyst that reacts to ...

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