Instead of trying to reinvent the human arm, German pneumatics supplier Festo decided to model a real one ... metacarpal). The 30 muscles are pneumatic tubes, which expand and contract under ...

It is long, gray, soft and – endowed with no fewer than 40,000 muscles ... trunk as a design model. “Its suppleness and agility gave us the idea for a bionic robot arm, ISELLA,” recounts ...

A new application for an old super-material has allowed researchers to start building real artificial muscles, though they can be several thousands of times stronger than any human! Share on ...

The film explores the muscular system of the human body, detailing the roles and functions of the three types of muscles: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Skeletal muscles, which are voluntary and ...

It is long, gray, soft and – endowed with no fewer than 40,000 muscles ... trunk as a design model. “Its suppleness and agility gave us the idea for a bionic robot arm, ISELLA,” recounts ...

Now, researchers from Bar-Ilan University (BIU) in Ramat Gan have developed a novel platform to model human muscle diseases in the Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) worm. The species is a small ...

In the new study published in the journal Development the authors have used these images to produce the first detailed analysis of the development of human arm and leg muscles. The unprecedented ...