3D-printing soft robot delivers hydrogels to the vocal cord surgical site to reconstruct tissues

After vocal cord surgery, many patients develop stiff vocal folds that impact their ability to speak. Hydrogels can help prevent this by promoting healing, but delivering hydrogels to the vocal cords ...

The first consumer humanoid robot is here, and it lets strangers see inside your home

Robotics company 1X Technologies (1XT), which secured $100 million in funding from OpenAI, EQT Ventures, and others in 2024, unveiled a bipedal humanoid robot, Neo Beta, last year.
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Humanoid robots could lift 4,000 times their own weight thanks to breakthrough 'artificial muscle'

Researchers have developed a chemical structure for an artificial muscle that can lift up to 4,000 times its weight, and they ...
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Scientists 3D print muscle tissue in zero gravity to study diseases beyond Earth

In a leap that could reshape how scientists study the human body in space, researchers at ETH Zurich have successfully 3D ...