Soft robots that mimic human muscles

An EPFL team is developing soft, flexible and reconfigurable robots. Air-actuated, they behave like human muscles and may be used in physical rehabilitation. They are made of low-cost materials and could easily be produced on a large scale.

[@KrotowX]

One particular industry already look to these with impatience :)

[@zariumsheridan3488]

These things are just actuators, not robots?

[@an_what]

Zar Shardan you are exactly CORRECT, thank you for existing and having common sense.

[@basedguns8218]

Yea pretty much just wiggly acuators

[@srejth]

Not Just actuators...meaning...it is muscles of robot... When it combines with other parts of robot..

[@IExSet]

Need soft valves for them !!!

[@ManyHeavens42]

Try carbon nano tubing much smaller much stronger Im proud of you.
Go man ,Go !but nano tubing slides in and out of each other. Like hydraulics.but much smaller!can even use water ! Air, anything !

[@davidsanchez799]

Bishop Android 🤔

[@arafat877]

Can a buy this muscles ???

[@michaelc.4321]

Better than AvE

[@ArmaanDK]

How dare u

[@JustforFun-cb7bo]

Fluid actuated muscles, nothing special there. Better use electricity like our muscles do.

[@Louis-ok3ry]

Our muscles only use electricity as a signal

[@leejerrett8268]

@@Louis-ok3ryTrue but I think they were referring to the fact that they are self contained units that only need a supply of non-kinetic energy to perform work. There isn’t a giant central super-muscle somewhere in our body feeding our muscles with pressurised fluid the way hydraulic ‘muscles’ do;
we pump a constant supply of energetic chemical compounds to our muscles which they can convert into kinetic energy locally similarly to how an electric motor converts electrical energy directly into physical work.