{"id":208381,"date":"2025-03-11T22:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T03:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/developing-3d-printed-soft-material-actuators-that-can-mimic-real-muscles"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T03:05:33","slug":"developing-3d-printed-soft-material-actuators-that-can-mimic-real-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/developing-3d-printed-soft-material-actuators-that-can-mimic-real-muscles","title":{"rendered":"Developing 3D-printed soft material actuators that can mimic real muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/developing-3d-printed-soft-material-actuators-that-can-mimic-real-muscles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Empa researchers are working on producing artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic yet powerful structures using 3D printing.<\/p>\n<p>One day, these could be used in medicine or robotics\u2014and anywhere else where things need to move at the touch of a button. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/admt.202500190\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial muscles don\u2019t just get robots moving: One day, they could support people at work or when walking, or replace injured muscle tissue. However, developing artificial muscles that can compare to the real thing is a major technical challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empa researchers are working on producing artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic yet powerful structures using 3D printing. One day, these could be used in medicine or robotics\u2014and anywhere else where things need to move at the touch of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}