{"id":143427,"date":"2022-08-02T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T19:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-new-tiny-robot-can-lift-a-thousand-times-its-own-weight-with-artificial-muscles"},"modified":"2022-08-02T14:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T19:48:43","slug":"a-new-tiny-robot-can-lift-a-thousand-times-its-own-weight-with-artificial-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-new-tiny-robot-can-lift-a-thousand-times-its-own-weight-with-artificial-muscles","title":{"rendered":"A new tiny robot can lift a thousand times its own weight with artificial muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-tiny-robot-can-lift-a-thousand-times-its-own-weight-with-artificial-muscles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dubbed GRACE, the robot hand can even bend fingers and make realistic human movements.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed a new type of artificial muscle that can lift 1,000 times its own weight * 3D actuators were combined to form a real-life robot hand that could lift 8kg * The high-strength properties could be applied to create higher capabilities in other body parts and a range of devices.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology has just developed a new class of high-strength artificial muscles that can stretch and contract like a human muscle in a way that has never been done before. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1126\/scirobotics.abn4155\">According to a recent research paper<\/a>, the muscles perform with a level of versatility and grace closely matched to life-like movements, and provide a boost in the development of three-dimensional functional devices such as artificial body parts. class of strong pneumatic artificial muscles has been developed and combined to form a robot hand that can lift up to thousand times its own weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubbed GRACE, the robot hand can even bend fingers and make realistic human movements. Scientists have developed a new type of artificial muscle that can lift 1,000 times its own weight * 3D actuators were combined to form a real-life robot hand that could lift 8kg * The high-strength properties could be applied to create [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}