To be successfully deployed on a large-scale and in a wide range of real-world settings, robots should be able to rapidly ...

A robot hand powered by lab-grown muscles is challenging you to a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors – do you accept? Here’s ...

Muscles and guns, the Predator way ... Vietnam veteran Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is recruited by his comrade Dillon (Carl Weathers) to work as a mercenary for the U.S. government.

A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been created. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown muscle tissue bundled into sushilike rolls to give the fingers enough ...

Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary ... It has more than 30 muscles, 27 joints alongside a network of ...

The soft robot actuated by pneumatic muscle actuators (PMAs) is becoming prominent for patients as it enables the compliance being adjusted in each active link, which, however, has not been reported ...

The robot, called Clone Alpha, is described as a "musculoskeletal android" - meaning it has synthetic organs, artificial muscles and ligaments instead of traditional robotics components.

Analyzing the robot’s earlier performance, the team found that the design caused the wings to interfere with one another, as their airflow clashed. Additionally, the actuators, functioning as ...

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The British architect has built an unprecedented factory of fine design. Inside the world of the man who creates exquisite ...

Abstract: The McKibben muscle, widely employed in antagonistic drive robots, exhibits approximately 20% contraction under pneumatic pressure but lacks crucial passive extensibility. Previous attempts ...