Show us your (carbon nanotube artificial) muscles!

Authors

Geoffrey M. Spinks, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

92109

Publication Details

Spinks, G. (2011). Show us your (carbon nanotube artificial) muscles!. The Conversation, 14 October 1-2.

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The Conversation

Abstract

The idea of doctors deploying miniscule robots in your body to diagnose and treat medical conditions is closer to reality today with the development of artificial muscles small and strong enough to push such tiny "nano-bots" along.