Soft gel could power robot muscles that grow stronger with a workout

Human musculature

Robots could eventually have muscles

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Our muscles obtain stronger when placed under tension and also currently robotics could do the very same, many thanks to a soft gel that ends up being more difficult when subjected to resonance.

Zhao Wang at the University of Chicago and also his associates developed the gel by installing zinc oxide nanoparticles right into a cellulose combination. They after that shook the product utilizing a tool developed to evaluate cars and truck and also plane layouts and also discovered that the nanoparticles discharged an electric cost, producing brand-new web links within the gel as the product developed into a polymer.

The group discovered that the toughness …