biomechanics

Nature Communications, Published online: 02 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72478-6 Robotic fish are shifting from engineering curiosities to experimental partners in biology. This Perspective highlights how adaptive, closed-loop robots enable controlled tests of neuromechanical, sensorimotor and social feedback underlying fish behavior.

BME students will present their work at the 10th World Congress of Biomechanics this summer. The post From Backhands to Breakthroughs: USC Viterbi Students Take Bold Biomechanics Research Worldwide appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

Development of a Biohybrid Tendon Interface for Muscle-Powered Robots Castro, Nicolas S. Unlike metal and plastic, biological materials can communicate with their surroundings, adapt to stimuli, and self-repair damage. Incorporating these materials into engineered systems could foster smarter, more adaptable machines. We have shown that engineered skeletal muscle stretched around an elastomer ‘sk…

BackgroundThe great variability of viola dimensions is known. Contrary to the violin, a lack of scientific knowledge remains on how dimensions, positioning, and biomechanical parameters contribute to the high incidence of medical complaints in violists.AimsThis project investigated how an instrument’s dimensions affect objective and subjective levels of muscular effort in a player’s left hand and…

Background The hip joint biomechanics of people with femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) syndrome are different from those of healthy people during a double-leg squat. However, information on biomechanics during a single-leg squat is limited. Objectives To compare hip joint biomechanics between people with FAI syndrome and people without hip pain during double-leg and single-leg squats. Methods Fo…

Background Cerebral palsy is the most prevalent motor disability in childhood, encompassing various movement disorders that affect walking. Researchers have described gait patterns in cerebral palsy, but these are often subjective and based on clinician experience. This study introduces an automated approach to objectively identify clinically meaningful biomechanical phenotypes in cerebral palsy …

Snakes are biological engineering marvels. They have no arms or legs, yet some of these creatures can stand nearly straight upright, erecting long lengths of their soft, flexible bodies vertically like flagpoles. But how do snakes defy gravity and remain balanced in this seemingly precarious position? Scientists recently unraveled this biological mystery, and they say their findings could one day…

A bat hanging from a cave ceiling is doing something that looks effortless but is, mechanically speaking, genuinely strange. It isn’t gripping. Not actively, anyway. When a bat lands inverted, its body weight pulls down on tendons running through the legs, and those tendons tighten the toes around whatever surface the animal has landed on. No muscle contraction required, no energy expenditure bey…

Hummingbirds and many insects hover when feeding, escaping predators, and mating. While scientists have decoded the mechanics of a hummingbird’s figure-8-like hovering wingstroke, it’s been harder to understand how the creatures control their hovering. Most of our attempts to control hovering require more computational power than hummingbirds and insects are thought to have. But this […]

Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 eWEAR Health Prize @Stanford U., Model Health! Overview: Model Health enables the capture and analysis of objective, standardized, and comprehensive movement data using only standard smartphone video. Combining AI with biomechanics, it empowers sports and clinical professionals to enhance rehabilitation outcomes and human performance with objective, clini…

The gym is full of people doing squats wrong. Knees caving in, backs rounding, hips drifting off-center. Some get away with it. Others end up sidelined for months, wondering what went wrong. Now researchers at UC San Diego have built an AI system that could help keep athletes out of the trainer’s office by generating personalized videos showing them exactly how to move. The model, called BIGE (fo…

How do lizards climb walls like superheroes? Ever watched a gecko sprint straight up glass or hang upside-down like gravity doesn't exist? It’s not magic—it’s mind-blowing lizard science! These tiny acrobats use gecko feet covered in millions of microscopic hairs called setae. Each hair splits into nano-sized pads that stick to walls using invisible atomic forces (van der Waals forces!), not glue…

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In the context of muscle, the field of biomechanics explores how muscles generate force, produce movement, and interact with the surrounding muscle architecture, such as bones and tendons. These ... The post Forward Advances in Biomechanics appeared first on Aurora Scientific .

Irvine, Calif., April 16, 2024 — In a significant scientific breakthrough, researchers from the University of California, Irvine School of Biological Sciences, in collaboration with the University of Southern California, […]

Saad Bhamla studies biomechanics across species to engineer knowledge and tools that inspire curiosity. Saad is an assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at Georgia Tech. A self-proclaimed “tinkerer,” his lab is a trove of discoveries and inventions that span biology, physics and engineering. His current projects include studying the hydrodynamics of insect urine, worm blob locomotion an…

Wearing virtual reality headsets, Delaware high school students were transported to a different world, where they learned about balance in the University of Delaware’s Virtual Reality and Orthotics Gait Lab. They were shown the links between orthopedics and engineering from a demo by The Perry Initiative, a nonprofit that seeks to inspire young women to […] The post National Biomechanics Day appe…

Post provided by Narimane Chatar (She/Her) Romain Boman (He/Him), Valentin Fallon Gaudichon (He/Him), Jamie A. MacLaren (He/Him), Valentin Fischer (He/Him). Understanding the way that bones and other biological materials deal with the stresses and strains of everyday life is fundamental for interpreting the behaviour of modern and extinct organisms. Researchers frequently do this by using a digit…

We are very pleased to announce a themed collection in Soft Matter on the Soft matter aspects of cancer.   This special issue presents important developments in cancer cell mechanics, mechanobiology, tissue mechanics and bioengineered models of cancer, in addition to emerging technologies in the field. The Guest Editors for this collection are: Professor Tanmay […]