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Alcohol Powered Muscles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bender-would-approve dept.

ianchaos writes "In an article on ScienCentral News, Scientists at the University of Texas are using alcohol to power artificial muscles. From the article: 'Usually the only alcohol-powered muscles are the ones in barroom brawls, but one scientist is adding alcohol to artificial muscles to power robots and more.'"

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  1. Re:Bender had it right! by blues_shuffle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Technically, it was Professor Farnsworth who had it right. He was the scientist who designed the robots. Bender just happened to be one of them.