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These novel materials are fascinating, feels like modern alchemy. Even if 99% are academic vaporware. These fibres don't seem to be actuated by electrical curr
by Gatsky 4y ago
These novel materials are fascinating, feels like modern alchemy. Even if 99% are academic vaporware.
These fibres don't seem to be actuated by electrical current, rather heat or water absorption. This makes them quite unlike muscle I would have thought.
- Robotbeat 4y agoI suspect the efficiency is low if they’re activated by heat. They give high “efficiency” number, but who knows what the denominator is. It’s paywalled.
- BarryMilo 4y agoI assume the vast majority of the neat material we have today came from a lab. Antiadhesive coating, velcro, even aluminum wasn't always possible at scale.