Artificial Muscles
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An artificial muscle material developed by Lenore Rasmussen and her company RasLabs is headed to the ISS this week to see if, in addition to better prosthetic devices, the material would be suitable for use in robots on deep space missions.
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Engineers from Germany's Saarland University have taken a unique approach with their prototype artificial hand. It moves its fingers via shape-memory nickel-titanium alloy wires, bundled together to perform intricate tasks by working like natural muscle fibers.
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Baymax, the inflatable robot in Big Hero 6, may seem as unlikely as a chocolate teapot, but professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon, Chris Atkeson, is working on a real life version (minus the karate and flying armor). Gizmag caught up with Atkeson to discuss the project.
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Two new lifelike (some might even say positively creepy) robot creations of Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro have now joined the staff of Tokyo's Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, and will act as announcer and science guide to a new permanent exhibition.
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Using pneumatic artificial muscles, scientists have replicated the 3D twisting motion of the beating heart. The research could lead to better-functioning cardiac implants, among other things.
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ScienceScientist have used ordinary fishing line and sewing thread to create artificial muscles. With possible applications including robotics and prostheses, they're 100 times more powerful than human muscles of the same size.
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ScienceA team of scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has demonstrated a robotic muscle with 1,000 times more power than that of a human's, and which has the ability to catapult items 50 times its own weight.
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A team at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) has developed a “robotic” muscle that has the potential to lift 80 times its own weight and holds out the promise of smaller, stronger robots capable of more refined movements.
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ScienceA team at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have combined atom-thick layers of graphene with a stretchy polymer film to create artificial muscles.