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Junior Professor Gianluca Rizzello with ‘dielectric elastomers’. The Saarbrücken researchers are using this composite material to create artificial muscles and nerves for use in flexible robot arms.
Junior Professor Gianluca Rizzello with ‘dielectric elastomers’. The Saarbrücken researchers are using this composite material to create artificial muscles and nerves for use in flexible robot arms.

Credit: Oliver Dietze

Saarland University

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