NewScientist: Robots muscles stronger than steel

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A new material that is weight for weight stronger than steel and stiffer than diamond, and weighs little more than its volume in air, could be the perfect artificial muscle for robots.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16806-robots-could-flex-muscles-that-ar...

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  • omg Crysis!

  • Wow that's amazing! Another step closer to the matrix or terminator.

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  • why dont they incorperate theses nanomuscles with actual human being with bad knee an joint muscles an replace with artificial muscle

  • 0:15 wuuuuuuut??

  • now I want floaty smokey muscles

  • wow

  • @omri9325 Because steel is a material the common person can relate to.

  • there are so many materials stronger then steel,

    why don't they pick other material for example how strong this is?

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    everyday we hear about a new material stronger then steel.

  • I want those muscles

  • Crysis! Crysis!!

  • Did anybody mention that nanotubes are quite carcinogenic? :P

  • wwwooooooooowwwww this must be the new technology that will achive the supermen

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