3D-printable synthetic soft muscle

[Black_Knyght]

Is the future closer than we thought?  ;)

https://engineering.columbia.edu/news/hod-lipson-lifelike-robots

[Sabelkatten]

I'm still skeptical about using heat (which this does). Heat transfer is either bulky or slow, I just can't see how they'll ever get this thing "up to speed". :(

[vidar]

Lace it through with a heating system, like a criculartory system.  The opposite of Battletech muscles.

[Sabelkatten]

Heating it up isn't the problem (I work with electronics, I know all too well how to heat things up! :D). Cooling things down sucks. Yeah, you can run cooling fluid through it, no problem. But said fluid then has to be cooled off itself - look at your refrigerator to see exactly how small and light that tends to be...

[Wrangler]

I'm still skeptical about using heat (which this does). Heat transfer is either bulky or slow, I just can't see how they'll ever get this thing "up to speed". :(

What do you think TSM is all about?  :))