With synthetic muscle that can lift 1,000 times its own weight, Terminator-like robots closer to reality
7 years, 6 months ago

With synthetic muscle that can lift 1,000 times its own weight, Terminator-like robots closer to reality

India TV News  

The idea of lifelike robots has moved a step closer to reality with scientists developing a new type of synthetic soft muscle capable of lifting 1,000 times its own weight. The synthetic soft muscle doesn’t need an external compressor or high-voltage equipment like the previous models, and can push, pull, bend and twist, as well as lift weight. synthetic muscle "We have been making great strides towards making robot minds, but robot bodies are still primitive," said Hod Lipson, professor at Columbia University in the US. Previously no material has been capable of functioning as a soft muscle due to an inability to exhibit the desired properties of high actuation stress and high strain.

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New robotic 'muscle' is a thousand times stronger than a human's
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New robotic 'muscle' is a thousand times stronger than a human's

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New robotic 'muscle' is a thousand times stronger than a human's and capable of hurling an object 50 times heavier than itself Breakthrough made by team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Robo-muscle is made of a unique material called vanadium dioxide It has a unique ability to change its size, shape and structure when heated Works as an insulator at …

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