Powerful artificial muscles made from fishing line

Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 15:00 in Biology & Nature

"Artificial muscles" that can lift 100 times more weight and generate 100 times more power than human muscle can be made cheaply and easily by anyone using ordinary nylon fishing line, according to a new study.

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