Artificial muscle lifting 20 times its own weight.

[fastcarss19]

i dont care what any one on here says, that is awesome!

[iseldoff]

It's not lifting it it's moving it from side to side the quarter behind it is sitting on the floor they try and make it look like it's lifting it vertically but it's only moving horizontally which takes less energy to do

[GatremagWenYm]

@iseldoff actually that quarter was probably glued or stuck to the wall to show people what it is lifting from the side.

[gordon5cc]

@capazzo22 Its lifting it ... its 20 times its weight... therefore its lifting 20 times its own weight... how is that so hard to understand...

[imposible2play]

hwere can i get this material?!?!?!? i´d like to run some test for my engineering proyects

[AZURA888]

if you put more current will it move quickly or the plastic just will melt.

[asshatnowhere159]

YOU CAN DO IT! GO GO GO GO!

[Peopleunit]

Looks like it might be ok if you're making a robot snail. :-)

[capazzo22]

This looks fake. The quarter is glued onto the "artificial muscle" and being held sideways so it's actually not lifting the full weight of the quarter straight up. Instead it is moving the quarter laterally. Either that or the other quarter seen at the beginning is glued to the freakin wall!

[epijdotorg]

@capazzo22 it's called electroactive polymere. you should at least google once before crying fake.

[capazzo22]

@epijdotorg I did not mean to say there is no such thing as "artificial muscles" only that while the video title says that the muscle is lifting 20 times it's own weight this is not true given the angle at which the quarter is being lifted. It is being lifted, or more correctly moved, sideways but not straight up and down. A vertical move would be required for the muscle to lift 20 times it's own weight.

[KottonmouthSoldiers]

so it works on a small scale, on a larger scale would it hold the same ratio properties?

[rampage0420]

thats some idiot using his hands

[RawrWolfie]

@rampage0420

Are you saying this is fake?

[tuseroni]

hmm interesting...id like to see a linear version though

[puppetdesign]

Whoa! The application of these artificial muscles would be interesting to see.