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Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots

NIBIB in the News
March 18, 2025

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In recent years, scientists and engineers have looked to muscles as potential actuators for “biohybrid” robots — machines powered by soft, artificially grown muscle fibers. Now, MIT engineers with NIBIB funding have developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple coordinated directions. Source: MIT News