Soft Materials for Soft Actuators

One Step Closer to Lifelike Robots A self-contained soft actuator three times stronger than natural muscle, without the need of externals, signals a breakthrough in soft robotics. The artificial muscle in use as a bicep lifts a skeleton’s arm to a 90 degree position. Researchers at Columbia Engineering have solved a long-standing issue in the creation of untethered soft robots whose actions and movements can help mimic natural biological systems. Aslan Miriyev and Kenneth Stack, in the Creative Machine