There's a joke within the admin-circles of Rogue Nation that the occasional Bot that wishes
to join the site seems to be getting smarter with their disguises. We even alligned them to
'Terminator'-style beings that are trying to invade!
Silly, huh...? However, on the back of Mystic's thread regarding the recent ability to attach
the internet to a human brain, it may not be too-far from reality.
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to join the site seems to be getting smarter with their disguises. We even alligned them to
'Terminator'-style beings that are trying to invade!
Silly, huh...? However, on the back of Mystic's thread regarding the recent ability to attach
the internet to a human brain, it may not be too-far from reality.
Quote:Scientists create artificial muscles which could allow robots to lift 1,000 times their own weight.
'Constructed using 3D printing, the synthetic device is able to expand and contract just like a
biological muscle, researchers say.
Scientists have developed an artificial muscle which they say could allow robots to lift 1,000 times
their own weight. Constructed using 3D printing, the synthetic, rubber-like device is controlled by a
small electric current and is able to expand and contract just like a biological muscle.
Developed at the Creative Machines laboratory at Columbia University in New York and partially
funded by the Israeli defence ministry, the muscle could be used for surgical robots which need to
grip and manipulate tools.
Researchers found it had a strain density - the density of energy stored in each gram of a stretched
elastic body - 15 times stronger than that of natural muscle. Officially called a "soft actuator", it is able
to lift 1,000 times its own weight, said the team, who have published their work in the journal Nature
Communications.
Lead author Professor Hod Lipson said: "We've been making great strides toward making robot minds,
but robot bodies are still primitive. "This is a big piece of the puzzle and, like biology, the new actuator
can be shaped and reshaped a thousand ways.
"We've overcome one of the final barriers to making lifelike robots."
Co-author Dr Aslan Miriyev said: "Our soft functional material may serve as robust soft muscle, possibly
revolutionising the way that soft robotic solutions are engineered today.
"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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