Robots may sooner or later have muscle mass
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Our muscle mass get stronger when put beneath stress and now robots may do the identical, due to a soft gel that turns into tougher when uncovered to vibration.
Zhao Wang on the College of Chicago and his colleagues created the gel by embedding zinc oxide nanoparticles right into a cellulose combination. They then vibrated the fabric utilizing a tool designed to check automobile and aeroplane designs and located that the nanoparticles emitted {an electrical} cost, creating new hyperlinks throughout the gel as the fabric become a polymer.
The workforce discovered that the energy …
