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Friday, March 17, 2006

Myomers

Last August, University of Texas researchers revealed that they had developed carbon nanotube sheeting. They listed one of the potential future applications of this technology as artificial muscle bundles. These artificial muscles could be used for building stronger, more agile robots and exoskeletal augmentation systems.

It appears they don't believe in wasting time. At this rate of development, we'll be fielding battlemechs and powered infantry armor in ten years.

posted by Jar(egg)head at 14:48

1 Comments:

Blogger JW said...

No Way,
These battlemechs will basically run off alcohol. That’s a classic Futurama Bending unit.

alcohol- and hydrogen-powered artificial muscles that are 100 times stronger than natural muscles

15:43  

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