image: From left to right: A single yarn coated with the electroactive polymer (polypyrrole); a knitted textile actuator (or textile muscle) including the electrical and mechanical contacts made of copper tape; and a piece of knitwear coated with the electroactive polymer (polypyrrole). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 25, 2017, 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.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University]