New nanotube-based material could form the basis of robotic muscles that function similar to biological muscles only with far greater capability (once they increase the density):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16806-robots-could-flex-muscles-that-are-stronger-than-steel.html
"Baughman and colleagues have developed a technique to make ribbons of tangled nanotubes that expand in width by 220% when a voltage is applied and then return to their normal size once it is removed. The process takes only milliseconds."
"The tangled nanotubes are constructed into a film that can be described as an aerogel, meaning it contains more air than anything else. Each cubic centimetre weighs only 1.5 milligrams and, given the film's thinness, a single gram would cover 30 square metres."
"It is extremely stiff and strong in the "long" direction – that in which the nanotubes are aligned – but is as stretchy as rubber across its width. It also maintains its properties over an extreme range of temperatures: from -196 °C, at which temperature nitrogen is liquid, to 1538 °C, above the melting point of iron."
Technology is advancing at an exponential rate often called the "Law of Accelerating Returns." If futurist predictions prove correct, we'll have advanced molecular manufacturing by around 2025, and possibly the replacement of humanity by vastly advanced machines a decade or two later.
This is a chronicle of our journey to that future, one advancing technology article at a time. I post the more significant and interesting articles as I come across them.
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