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Jul 13, 2019

MIT team draws on cucumbers to develop surprisingly strong artificial muscles

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI

To develop a new artificial muscle for robots MIT researchers are taking inspiration from an unlikely source – the cucumber. It’s not the fruit of the plant that’s good for sandwiches and salads that the engineers are interested in, but the tightly coiled tendrils that wrap themselves around solid objects to support the growing plant by corkscrewing and pulling with surprising force.

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