– Skynet Looms: Breakthrough Artificial Muscle Can Lift 1000x Its Own Weight:
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have created inexpensive, artificial muscles that enable robots to lift 1,000 times their weight. The project was financed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Scientists describe the soft-robotic breakthrough as a ‘fluid-driven origami inspired artificial muscle’.
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The report added, a .09 ounce artificial muscle can lift an object weighing 6.6 pounds “which is the equivalent of a mallard duck lifting a car.”
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