threedigits writes:
"The technology to build giant robots is one bit step closer: a group of international researchers have published a paper describing a method to create artificial muscle fibres. The cool thing is that they are about 100 times stronger than biological muscle tissue, and you can try it at home! The basis is polyethylene or nylon string, AKA fishing line. A great video is available on Hack A Day."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:57PM
Or you could mount it in such a way that it's free to twist, seems to work fine that way, at least from what I could see from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fh65grtjS4 [youtube.com] from hackaday.
Something like a fishing swivel should work just fine for that application.
I don't know how much that would reduce the power of this thing, but might be worth a try?
Anyway I found the aspect of it being heat driven strangely appealing and the fact that the material is readily available and cheap should open up for more research being done into wether it could prove benefifical over more conventional actuators for practical or economical reasons.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:20PM
Very cool.
That's an interesting twist (see what I did there?) on the original video, as he annealed the material first.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.