For years, the body’s largest lean tissue—skeletal muscle—has been underestimated in its role in managing metabolic health.

Now, MIT engineers have taken a major step toward developing robots that replace rigid gears with something much softer – almost like real, living muscle tissue. In other words, they have found a way ...

While some muscles align in one direction, others form intricate patterns, helping parts of the body move in multiple ... whereas the muscle tissue in the real human iris is made up of smooth ...

In contrast, the human body's muscles are far more versatile ... with something much softer – almost like real, living muscle tissue. In other words, they have found a way to grow artificial ...