@rowancheung: Researchers from MIT and Politecnico di Bari have developed electrically driven artificial muscle fibers that contract and extend like biological muscle without motors, gears, or external pumps. Each fiber contains a sealed fluid circuit and a millimeter-scale electric pump that shifts liquid between two actuators, causing one to contract while the other relaxes. The fibers are silent, scalable by bundling like natural muscle, and thin enough to distribute throughout a robotic structure rather than concentrating bulk at joints. In testing, the fibers demonstrated enough force to bend a robotic arm while remaining gentle enough for human interaction. This could one day be used for prosthetics that move with the body, exoskeletons that amplify human strength, and humanoid robots that move more naturally than current servo-driven systems. Study: “Electrofluidic fiber muscles” published in Science Robotics DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.ady6438

Elias🇨🇭 :

You deserve a bigger audience dude your content is great

Ryder Bettencourt🇺🇸 :

My biggest flex is that I rejected MIT.

.maxchrome :

one step closer to nanosuit

Professor Dictabeat :

the T800 draws closer

Antek Nastawczy Nastawczy :

This is our future

Mr. Ian :

This is how the battletech mechs start, we got myomer bundles!

Ryujinx :

mech eng undergrads when they have to now learn this as mechanics

Ghost :

So we trying to make ultron body now

neverOne :

So we are getting closer to the CryNet Nanosuit

Ken :

so, better bionic limbs later?

bruh :

build around biology?

jas :

RIP dr House you wouldda loved this one 😭

Луна. :

IM CRYING

YeetusEliteus :

defimately not going towards terminator future daily

Martin-Gilles Lavoie 🇨🇦 :

So it can deal with dumbbells. But what about astute ones?

LuckyNozaro :

oh im gonna be so upset when im 50 and see how much advanced technology is getting and i wont live to see more

Juan Esema 🎤 :

zyborgs are closer

h4rrisxn :

#revivelove

SHY :

leifadamec07 :

Cool but how efficient is it compared to regular motors?

chronoly :

Lazarus :

Soon we'll have fully functional cybernetic limbs

GLO5IV3🕸️ :

very interesting