Often termed “bigorexia” in medical circles, muscle dysmorphia manifests as an overwhelming preoccupation with perceived inadequacies in muscularity. This condition drives affected individuals into ...

Festo's new "fluidic muscle" has no piston. It is emerging as an alternative to actuators with pistons in many applications. The muscle uses membrane expansion to achieve its stroke length. The ...

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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 ...

Future robots could soon have a lot more muscle power. Northwestern University engineers have developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new ...