The human body moves through a coordinated effort of skeletal muscles, working in concert to generate force. While some ...

Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple coordinated ...

Now, MIT engineers have taken a major step toward developing robots that replace rigid gears with something much softer – ...

Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid' robots powered by ...

The lower image shows computer modeling of strain distribution across the artificial tissue. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...