Fostering relationships between the disability and soft robotics communities will spark innovations that could benefit all.

A new approach developed at MIT aims to solve a core limitation in 3D bioprinting, by actively preventing cell sedimentation within bioinks, allowing for more reliable and biologically consistent 3D p...

Biohybrid robots, which rely on living muscles to drive force generation, could be of use in applications ranging from microsurgery to unmanned exploration. But the development of untethered and auton...

Engineering skeletal muscle tissue with precisely defined alignment is of significant importance for applications ranging from drug screening to biohybrid robotics. Aligning 2D contractile muscle mono...

Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation

The extracellular space is a critical environment for discriminating self versus non-self nucleic acids and initiating the appropriate immune responses through signaling cascades to relay information ...

Real-time monitoring and in situ data analysis are increasingly vital for enhancing precision, reproducibility, and defect detection in embedded biopr…

Throughout history, humans have used tools and machines to reduce the burden of physical labour. Robots are increasingly able to act independently in complex and dynamic environments but advanced mach...