Knitting and Weaving Electrically Active Fabrics for Flexible 'Artificial Muscles' (2 of 12) (IMAGE)

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Knitting and Weaving Electrically Active Fabrics for Flexible 'Artificial Muscles' (2 of 12)

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A photograph of a knitted textile actuator (or textile muscle) including the electrical and mechanical contacts made of copper tape. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 25, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Maziz at Linköping University in Linköping, Sweden; N.-K., and colleagues was titled, 'Knitting and weaving artificial muscles.'

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[Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University]

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