MIT Built an Artificial Muscle — No Motors, No Pumps | Science Explained

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[00:00:00]MIT just built an artificial muscle and it works exactly like yours does. Inside each fiber is a sealed tube of electrically charged liquid and a tiny electric pump. When the pump activates, one side contracts while the other relaxes, just like your biceps and triceps when you bend your arm.

[00:00:21]Here's the mechanism. The pump injects electrical charge into the fluid. That creates ions and the ions drag the liquid along with them.

[00:00:31]No motors, no external pumps, completely silent.

[00:00:35]And because they're fibers, you bundle them together just like real muscle tissue and scale up the force simply by adding more strands.

[00:00:44]In demos, these fibers were strong enough to bend a robotic arm and curl a dumbbell, but gentle enough to shake a human hand. Prosthetics, exoskeletons, industrial robots.

[00:00:57]This is what happens when engineers stop building around motors and start building around biology. If this kind of research interests you, subscribe and hit like. It really helps.