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"In science fiction one can say a great many things that are unpalatable, … because it's expressed as science fiction you can slip it past their defenses."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Quasi-Muscles (Sham Musculature) | ||
| A means of giving motive power to robots or machines that is similar to animal musculature. |
| Technovelgy from The War of the Worlds,
by H.G. Wells. Published by Harper and Bros. in 1898 Additional resources -
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- Carbon Nanotube Muscles
- Biomimetic Artificial Muscles
- Artificial Muscles To Power UAV Drone Wings
- Humanoid Robot's Muscles Biomimic Ours
- Away Rude Mechanicals! I Want Self-Sensing Variable-Stiffness Artificial Muscles.
| RoboBallet The Dance Of Cooperative Robots |
| Does CloneRobotics Offer A True Android? |
| Robots Repair And Modify Themselves |
| Robot Janitors Get To Work |
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