Tests by researchers at Columbia Engineering show a bundle of white muscle, held in the palm of a researcher’s hand, moving and expanding in response to low power sent through a thin resistive wire.
The researchers took inspiration from living organisms to create this artificial active tissue with intrinsic expansion ability that does not require an external compressor or high voltage equipment as previous muscles required. It can push, pull, bend, twist and lift weight. It’s the closest artificial material equivalent we have to a natural muscle.
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