image: A flexible or stretchable shell is filled with insulating liquid. Electrodes are placed on either side of the shell and when voltage is applied, electric forces displace the fluid driving shape change of the muscle. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 5 January 2018, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by E. Acome at University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, and colleagues was titled, "Hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic actuators with muscle-like performance." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Keplinger Research Group and <i>Science</i>/AAAS