Researchers are continuing to make progress on developing a new synthetic material that behaves like biological muscle, an ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have now created a technique for creating synthetic muscle tissue that can flex and twitch in a variety of coordinated directions. To illustrate ...

It's not clear that anyone was asking for a company to build a muscular, sinewy robot or to see a video of it dangling, helpless from a hook, but life is full of surprises and this YouTube video of ...

Try as we might, the most advanced synthetic materials pale in comparison to super-strong biological compounds like spider silk and muscle fibers. On that second count, researchers may be closer to ...