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Arm Wrestling Robots Beaten By A Teenage Girl

Posted by timothy on from the where-can-I-have-this-done-to-me dept.

fembots writes "Despite her lack of strength, training and technique, a 17-year-old girl has bested three robot arm wrestlers in a contest attempted to encourage the development of polymer-based artificial muscles, which can change shape when activated either electrically or with chemicals."

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  1. Here's more about the girl by ortholattice · · Score: 5, Informative

    Panna Felson

  2. Other Stats by anonicon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since the jokes are going to be flying fast and furious over this, I thought I'd ask if anyone has links to other information about this cool research. Googling on polymer muscles brought up this page, but I didn't see anything about their ability to carry semi-fluid weight loads like groceries, tools, etc.

    One nice side note (hopefully) - since it's government funded through NASA, does this mean this work won't be patented and re-sold in the market for an even higher price than it will already cost?

  3. Re:Photo in article by Defender2000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ask and ye shall receive:
    Here

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    ...I'll procrastinate tomorrow...
  4. KISS? by rbarreira · · Score: 2, Informative
    According to her bio:

    In her junior year, she founded an engineering club at her school for which her robotics knowledge helped the team win KISS

    A hot geek helping a bunch of geeks getting a KISS, with her robotics knowledge? My brain is hurting already...
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    The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
  5. Re:Intel StrongARM by GrAfFiT · · Score: 2, Informative

    In fact, StrongARM is dead, now it's PXA/XScale.