This course introduces students to the growing field of Artificial Life: the study of “life as it could be” rather than as it happened to unfold on Earth. We will address fundamental questions about ...

Promising recent developments in materials science and processing have enabled the efforts on the design and development of novel “artificial muscles”, using dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs).

The ‘body’ of a soft robot is soft like natural tissue. A soft robot is driven not by heavy motors but by soft artificial muscles. The energy store in a soft robot much more closely resembles a ...

The study is published in Nature Communications. Soft artificial muscles, which emulate the fluidity of human muscular motion, have emerged as vital technologies in various fields, including ...