Artificial muscles (IMAGE)
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Researchers have developed artificial tendons for muscle-powered robots. They attached the rubber band-like tendons (blue) to either end of a small piece of lab-grown muscle (red), forming a “muscle-tendon unit.”
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Courtesy of Ritu Raman et al
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