Imagine a rubber band that turns into a steel cable on command. Now imagine it’s inside a robot. That’s the basic trick of a new artificial muscle built by researchers at the Ulsan National Institute ...

Wearable robots are edging closer to the kind of smart body armour seen in superhero films, such as the powered suit worn by Iron Man. Researchers have developed an automated weaving system that can ...

Can muscle tissue be 3D-printed in outer space to improve astronaut health? This is what a recent study published in Advanced Science hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how human ...