A small strip of rubbery material sits motionless on a lab bench at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A researcher aims ...

A new artificial muscle can change shape, repair damage, and be reused, bringing a major shift in how robots are built and ...

Soft robots have long promised something rigid machines cannot easily deliver. They offer the ability to bend, flex, and ...

A question left unanswered in a biologist’s lab notebook for 40 years has finally been explained, thanks to a little fish that couldn’t wriggle its tail. New research from the University of Oregon ...

Here’s why some muscle groups respond faster (or slower) to strength training—and what you can do about it.

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are scaling individual molecular machines into ...