Researchers have developed tissue-based muscle actuators that can enable robots to jump, swim, and grasp ...

Most people treat sleep as the absence of activity. For muscle tissue, it is the opposite, deep sleep is when the body runs ...

Researchers have developed muscle actuators that flex strongly enough to enable small robots to jump, swim, walk, and grasp.

MIT engineers have built a paper-thin swimming robot powered by living muscle cells that respond to flashes of light, ...

Differences in the way muscles respond to stress could help explain why certain sports injuries are more common in women compared to men, and vice versa, new research suggests. The small study is ...

Lab-grown skeletal muscle tissue can contract, but the movement is often so slight that it is barely visible. This poses a ...

Sometimes nature provides the best blueprints for building effective robots. It also can provide the best material. Billions of years of natural selection has built some pretty impressive machinery, ...

A new computational framework called TopoBoW combines topological data analysis with visual word encoding to distinguish ...

Engineered three-dimensional muscle bundles grown from pediatric patients with juvenile dermatomyositis, immune-mediated ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why statins, the widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that help prevent ...

Design of the robots has evolved through the research to the current state, where the muscle tissue is secured to the ...