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Vine-inspired soft robot achieves gentle closed-loop lifting

It is not every day that a robot takes its cues from the quiet persistence of a climbing vine; still, that’s exactly where ...
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MIT’s hydrogel tendons boost biohybrid robot power by 30x

“Muscles never clamp directly onto bone.” This anatomical truth, as simple as it sounds, has become the blueprint for a leap ...
Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...
Soft robots have a “cardiovascular” problem. While their bodies can deform and bend, their hearts, the pumps that keep them ...