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Upgrades to Moving Robotic Parts Can Help Robots Flex their 'Muscles' (1 of 6)

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Upgrades to Moving Robotic Parts Can Help Robots Flex their 'Muscles' (1 of 6)

image: HASEL actuators can be designed as soft grippers to handle and manipulate delicate objects. 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


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