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New twist on artificial 'muscles' for safer, softer robots
July 10, 2024
EVANSTON, Illinois, July 10 -- Northwestern University issued the following news release:

together. Building soft actuators in this way presented fabrication and operational challenges. It also reduced the softness of the HSA actuators.

To build an improved soft actuator, the researchers aimed to design a single HSA driven by one servo motor. But first, the team needed to find a way to make a single motor twist a single HSA.

To solve this problem, Kim added . . .

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