“If muscles are nature’s motors, tendons are the drive shafts—and MIT just built a better one.” That’s how one researcher ...

“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 ...

From a billion miles away, Earth appears as nothing more than a pale blue speck of dust, seen only through a shaft of sunlight. "Look again at that dot," Carl Sagan wrote. "That's here. That's home.

Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, ...

MIT engineers built an ultrasound wristband that tracks 22 degrees of hand freedom with 120ms latency, enabling real-time robot hand and sign language control.

As technology improves, researchers slowly bridge the gap between prosthetics and human limbs: Scientists have developed a prosthetic hand that lets users feel temperatures and bionic legs that move ...

Upcycling may not be the only way for garments to shape shift. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Self-Assembly Lab have developed technology that allows a garment to be ...