ETH Zurich cultivates muscle-powered robot that jumps 5 millimeters
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ETH Zurich researchers changed how lab-cultured muscle connects to the frame, enabling a 1.5-centimeter robot to jump 5 millimeters in a single muscle contraction. They designed the muscle together with a flexible 3D-printed scaffold: tiny grooves on the scaffold help muscle fibers align neatly and provide firm anchor points for muscle contraction. This result came from the team's redesign of the muscle-scaffold connection, not from changes to the robot's overall structure.
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Researchers at ETH Zurich changed how muscle connects to the frame, enabling a 1.5-centimeter robot to jump 5 millimeters with a single muscle contraction. They designed the muscle together with a flexible 3D-printed scaffold; tiny grooves on the scaffold help muscle fibers align neatly and provide firm anchor points for force.
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