Poland-based Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones. The company ...

This shape change can then be used for actuation, imitating natural muscles. In that sense, a simple hydraulic cylinder ... thermally actuated artificial muscle that can contract by about 50% ...

[consciousflesh] does away with both those for his DIY hydraulic artificial muscles. Instead, he uses a pair of muscles, both preloaded with fluid. To contract one, he pumps the fluid into the ...

“The field of soft robotics hadn’t even been born when I started researching artificial muscle technology ... how these coiled fishing-line muscles contract.” Takagi’s lab is now seeking ...

of contraction force for a 3-gram muscle fiber. According to the firm, Myofiber is the only artificial muscle capable of achieving such power, speed, and efficiency. The Clone’s skeleton ...

The firm claims its Protclone V1 is the world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. Clone’s Myofiber technology uses artificial muscles to move the skeleton by attaching t ...