Fiber-Based Artificial Muscles Get New and Powerful Twists (1 of 8) (VIDEO)

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Weightlifting performance of individual and bundled fiber muscles actuated via a heat gun. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 12, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Kanik at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, 'Strain-programmable fiber-based artificial muscle.'

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Mehmet Kanik and Sirma Orguc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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