Tiny robots could serve all kinds of useful functions, but shrinking their actuators has proven challenging. Now researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia have made artificial ...

Custom, robotic prosthesis are on the rise. In numerous projects, hackers and makers have taken on the challenge. From Enabling The Future, Open Hand Project, OpenBionics to the myriad prosthesis ...

Researchers have discovered that a protein called B1N1 is necessary for the heart to contract. The findings shed light not only on what makes a heart beat but also on heart failure, a disease where ...

After an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery, it's common to experience quadriceps weakness, which was thought to be caused primarily by muscle atrophy, or shrinkage. But researchers at ...

Put on this scuba-like suit filled with electrodes and be ready for a tingling, buzzing sensation in your muscles! This sensation is caused by a medical device that is the first to be approved for ...

Without functioning muscles, we wouldn’t be able to do a whole lot. Even our most basic needs, eating and breathing, depend on our muscles. Yet on the molecular level, muscles are quite simple.

What if a full-body workout was only a matter of hooking yourself up to a system of wires and electrodes, doing a few lunges and squats, and calling it a day? That seems to be the lofty claim of ...

After an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery, it's common to experience quadriceps weakness, which was thought to be caused primarily by muscle atrophy, or shrinkage. After an anterior ...