New Artificial Muscles Lift 1000 Times Their Own Weight

In a new paper published in the journal PNAS, scientists from MIT CSAIL and Harvard's Wyss Institute show how soft robotics can retain immense strength with the help of rigid origami skeletons. Professor Daniela Rus, CSAIL director and lead author of the paper, said in an interview with The Verge, ... from Google Alert - robotics http://ift.tt/2AFGgwm via Towson Makerspace