Did you know that under the right conditions, nylon can be used as a type of artificial muscle? We certainly didn’t until we came across [Brandon T. Wood]’s Material Linear-Actuator for Robotics entry ...

Researchers have developed a low-voltage, muscle-like actuator that powers autonomous insect-scale robots with unprecedented force, speed, and efficiency. Published in Nature, the study introduces an ...

Oh, the poor humanoid robots. After decades of development, they're still less sprinty Terminator and more … octogenarian on sedatives. While these robots may look like us, they aren’t built like ...

Micro-jumping robots offer unique advantages in scenarios such as confined space exploration and post-disaster search and rescue. However, traditional designs have consistently faced two major ...

The team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder was inspired by organic muscles to develop the soft "actuators." The technology could streamline bulky metal androids and enable them to ...

While advances in machine learning may make the robot apocalypse seem imminent, we can at least rest easy knowing that these robots are still too clunky and too slow to really chase us down. But, that ...