/technologies/robotics/b/blog/posts/flexible-soft-robots-can-imitate-human-musclesA team from the EPFL have created soft robots that are flexible and soft enough to copy the way human muscles behave. These soft robots look more like pack of hot dogs (Photo from EPFL) Sometimes it’s hard to think of robots as flexible, but the...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/robotics/b/blog/posts/flexible-soft-robots-can-imitate-human-musclesSat, 22 Oct 2016 17:43:13 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:19e72f6b-ad24-4fa4-9c20-53d00d3a7f27DAB0<p>Interesting technology.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I wonder if they have run any reliability tests over time.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anytime you have moving components, you get unexpected failures.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=2130&AppID=36&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/technologies/robotics/b/blog/posts/flexible-soft-robots-can-imitate-human-musclesFri, 21 Oct 2016 14:31:26 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:19e72f6b-ad24-4fa4-9c20-53d00d3a7f27the-dubster0<p>Pretty close to what is currently used in sfx animatronics.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=2130&AppID=36&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">