Soft robots use artificial muscles and skeletons to lift 1000 times their own weight

Humans have soft muscles and rigid skeletons, and when exerted in optimal sync they have the potential to lift large amounts of weight. A technique, created by scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Harvard’s Wyss Institute, mimics this natural arrangement by using soft muscles and rigid origami skeletons to allow a device to lift 1,000 times its own weight.

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