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Artificial Muscles

   Posted by: richard   in Everyday Things

This is a pretty cool concept. Plastics that stretch when a high voltage charge is applied to them are being used to mimic animal muscles. They’ve got a ways to go, but they speculate on having robots moving about like animals.

HT: Design Watch Blog

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