Mobile Robots: Motor Challenges and Materials Solutions
- 16 November 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 318 (5853), 1094-1097
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1146351
Abstract
Bolted-down robots labor in our factories, performing the same task over and over again. Where are the robots that run and jump? Equaling human performance is very difficult for many reasons, including the basic challenge of demonstrating motors and transmissions that efficiently match the power per unit mass of muscle. In order to exceed animal agility, new actuators are needed. Materials that change dimension in response to applied voltage, so-called artificial muscle technologies, outperform muscle in most respects and so provide a promising means of improving robots. In the longer term, robots powered by atomically perfect fibers will outrun us all.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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