Every year, tens of thousands of people with signs of Parkinson's disease go unnoticed until the incurable neurodegenerative ...

Everything from the tiniest particles to unfathomably large landmasses possesses this fundamental stick and slip characteristic, but only now are scientists beginning to understand the mechanics of ...

Pneumatic soft actuators with arrayed chambers (PSAC) can reproduce complex and various shapes such as tongues. This study presents a design method for an internal pressure pattern for the tongue-type ...

To match biological muscles, artificial versions must be powerful, elastic, and soft. They are fundamentally dependent on actuators, which are parts that translate electrical information into motion.

Researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic, yet powerful structures using 3D printing ...

Mar 11, 2025 Muscles from the 3D printer Researchers have developed powerful, elastic artificial muscles using 3D printing, promising applications in medicine, robotics, and responsive technologies.

The so-called dielectric elastic actuators (DEA) consist of two different silicone-based materials: a conductive electrode material and a non-conductive dielectric. These materials interlock in ...

Elastic-wave technology is poised to alter touch sensing across multiple industries and on a range of rigid objects, including glass, wood, and plastic.

Time response of the topological surface wave transport. (A to C). The magnitude of total displacement field at 0.5 ms, 2.5 ms, and 4 ms, respectively.

For robots to interact safely with humans and travel with minimal weight, low-density packable actuators are sought. Electronically-driven active materials like shape memory wire and other artificial ...

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Advancing light-driven micromotors Researchers demonstrate light-induced locomotion in a nonliquid environment and report a new type of liquid-like motion Peer-Reviewed Publication SPIE ...