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[Antiochus]

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-soft-robotics-self-contained-actuator-stronger.html

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have solved a long-standing issue in the creation of untethered soft robots whose actions and movements can help mimic natural biological systems. A group in the Creative Machines lab led by Hod Lipson, professor of mechanical engineering, has developed a 3D-printable synthetic soft muscle, a one-of-a-kind artificial active tissue with intrinsic expansion ability that does not require an external compressor or high voltage equipment as previous muscles required. The new material has a strain density (expansion per gram) that is 15 times larger than natural muscle, and can lift 1000 times its own weight.

To achieve an actuator with high strain and high stress coupled with low density, the lead author of the study Aslan Miriyev, a postdoctoral researcher in the Creative Machines lab, used a silicone rubber matrix with ethanol distributed throughout in micro-bubbles. The solution combined the elastic properties and extreme volume change attributes of other material systems while also being easy to fabricate, low cost, and made of environmentally safe materials.

"Our soft functional material may serve as robust soft muscle, possibly revolutionizing the way that soft robotic solutions are engineered today," said Miriyev. "It can push, pull, bend, twist, and lift weight. It's the closest artificial material equivalent we have to a natural muscle."

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

Terminator.gif

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

Sky net is happy

 

[Media]

I wonder if that could help people who've lost massive amounts of of muscle due to injury

 

[adj_noun]

 

[Altazor]

I never asked for this.

 

[-Deimos]

I asked for this.

 

[The Living Tribunal]

 

[Fulminator]

I wonder if that could help people who've lost massive amounts of of muscle due to injury

I was wondering the same

Would be pretty amazing

 

[Zaru]

You're in the club and this robot slaps your girlfriend's ass. What do you do?

 

[Xe4]

Damn. That's almost 50 diesel engines per muscle strand.

 

[FUME5]

We just upgraded your sexbot to an assassinbot.

Enjoy, meatbag.

 

[kyser73]

Where's my exo-skeleton?

 

[The Technomancer]

Here we go

 

[Steeped in a Sea of Games]

One day we're just going to accidentally create a plain old regular human and realize that we were our own God the whole time.

 

[Log4Girlz]

I want the strength of 5 gorillas

 

[SwiftDeath]

Spoiler

In like 5 years tops

 

[RDreamer]

Don't let these things near babies:

 

[Imperfected]

I wonder if that could help people who've lost massive amounts of of muscle due to injury

It doesn't seem like this would work as an implant in a natural human body.

It's robot body or bust, baby.

 

[Amagon]

You're in the club and this robot slaps your girlfriend's ass. What do you do?

 

[Lord Fagan]

Yes, but does it taste like steak?

 

[Bakercat]

When you thought you bought a sexbot but instead got a wrastlerbot. Imagine some dude trying to get it to give a handjob and it throws him by the penis out the window.

 

[The Technomancer]

EDIT: Nvm

 

[Sub_Level]

Synthetic soft tissue over metal endoskeleton.

 

[Imperfected]

You're in the club and this robot slaps your girlfriend's ass. What do you do?

Take her to the hospital?

 

[The Kree]

In light of recent world events I'm revising my stance on the technological singularity. Robots exterminating us is now the best case scenario.

 

[inner-G]

We just upgraded your sexbot to an assassinbot.

Enjoy, meatbag.

Putting the ass in assassinbot.

 

[Mr.Mike]

Even short of whatever robotics applications, I have to imagine this could be really useful in mechanical engineering. Not a mechanical engineer, but replacing pulleys in certain situations comes to mind.

 

[Da-Kid]

Take her to the hospital?

Lmao.

 

[Imperial Bishop]

 

[Wag]

Want to see fight giant pet ant from MCU.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

Waiting for my octocamo muscle suit:

 

[Sectorseven]

Do you even lift, bot?

Spoiler

Oh...

 

[Toa TAK]

No gif of the T-800 punching and lifting the gang member with its fist in their abdomen?

 

[Lowmelody]

Finally, realistic contractions.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Mutant league all our athletes with this tech.

 

[archangelmorph]

Great.

Now where’s my Crysis suit?

 

[SRG01]

Ugh, underwhelming. A lot of the concept videos are sped up, and this artificial muscle still uses thermal actuation -- which means slow expansion and contraction times...

 

[Eylos]

Yeah First thing in my mind IS Crysis suit, then cyborgues