New Artificial Muscles Self- Heal And Generate Power

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New Artificial Muscles Self-Heal and Generate Power

Posted Mar 24th 2008 2:28PM by Tim Stevens

Filed under: Computers

 

We as human beings have some amazing advantages over our metal, cyborg wanna-bes. Sure, researchers are making artificial bots and machines that can climb and maybe even think and do lots of things that we can do, but when it comes to the complete package, we humans still can't be beat. Still, bots are getting closer and closer every day, frighteningly so sometimes, as evidenced by this latest news of artificial muscles that can heal themselves and even generate electricity to boot.

 

Researchers at UCLA have created artificial muscles made of carbon nanotubes. When exposed to current, the artificial muscles can be made to contract and, when expanded, can give off electricity that can be stored to power future contractions. Combined with the ability to self-repair damage, these artificial muscles are an impressive breakthrough that bring more durability and organic functionality to the field of prosthetics and robotics.

 

Wow....that is amazing!..... :(

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lol, the human race is all downhill from here.