Photo by Stoyan Smoukov Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed artificial muscles which can learn and recall specific movements, the first time that motion control and memory have been combined in a synthetic material.
The ‘muscles’, made from smooth plastic, could eventually be used in a wide range of applications where mimicking the movement of natural muscle would be an advantage, such as robotics, aerospace, exoskeletons and biomedical applications.
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Ref: Electro-mechanical actuator with muscle memory | J. Mater. Chem. C, 2014,2, 8029-8034 DOI: 10.1039/C4TC00904E
Researchers create synthetic muscles that are capable of retaining memory and motion control
