For Robots, Fuel Cells That Double as Muscles

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Fri Mar-24-06 12:23 PM
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For Robots, Fuel Cells That Double as Muscles

Ray H. Baughman, a professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Dallas, has not built an android. He has not built a brain or an eye or a robotic equivalent of some other complex body part. Instead, he has built something that will also be crucial for future androids: artificial muscles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/science/21find.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

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