A new hydrogel tendon design lets engineered muscle transmit far more force to rigid skeletons, resulting in 11 times higher power-to-weight performance. Study: Biohybrid Tendons Enhance the ...

Researchers created tough hydrogel artificial tendons, attached them to lab-grown muscle to form a muscle-tendon unit, then linked the tendons to a robotic gripper's fingers. (Nanowerk News) Our ...

Our muscles are nature’s actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate “biohybrid robots” made ...