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Nanotube Artificial Muscles Stronger than Steel for Robots

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Nanotube Artificial Muscles Stronger than Steel for Robots

A new material that is weight for weight stronger than steel and stiffer than diamond, and weighs little more than its volume in air, could be the perfect artificial muscle for robots.

Ray Baughman and colleagues have developed a technique to make ribbons of tangled nanotubes that expand in width by 220% when a voltage is applied and then return to their normal size once it is removed. The process takes only milliseconds....
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