Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...

Although nature does not necessarily provide the optimal form, it still outperforms many artificial systems and offers ...

A review paper by scientists at the Zhejiang University summarized the development of continuum robots from the aspects of design, actuation, modeling and control field. The new review paper, ...

Researchers from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Imperial College, London, have created fiber-based soft robots with advanced motion control that integrate other functionalities, such as electric and ...