This artificial muscle lifts 1,000x its own weight, but only costs $1 to make

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Wyss Institute at Harvard University and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) joined forces to create super strong artificial muscles. The origami-inspired muscles give soft robots the power to lift things 1,000x their own weight and the research team involved in the project mentions that it takes less that $1 and 10 minutes to make a single unit. Read more…

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