Soft robotics

Innovations Groundbreaking, 3D-printed, artificial muscles bend and twist on demand

Harvard’s new 3D-printed filaments act like artificial muscles, bending, twisting, and gripping through heat-driven shape changes.

Health Reprogrammable artificial muscle can change its shape, recover from damage, and even be reused Rebecca Shavit

Innovations Programmable hydrogel ‘smart skin’ can hide images, shift texture, and morph shape Hannah Shavit-Weiner