Artificial Muscles for Robots
December 3, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
“Electroactive” polymers, which can stretch many times their length in response to a variable electric current, demonstrate both enormous strength and smooth, delicate motion. This is the research field of engineers at the National University of Singapore who are developing robots with artificial muscles that can lift ten times their own weight, and theoretically 500 times as much. MORE
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