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Scientists from two of the USA's elite universities have a new method of artificial muscles. The scientists have their discovery as a "soft robot". It is a 2.6-gram "muscle" that like a small bag with many water-filled compartments. It has been amazing strength by supporting it with an origami-inspired structural framework. This the artificial muscle to an object that is 1,000 times its own weight. The New Scientist website this weight-to-strength ratio the equivalent of a newborn baby lifting a large 4WD car. The ground-breaking discovery could greatly many areas of science, medicine, robotics and engineering.

The scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. They are experts in the field of soft robotics. They said their new soft robot muscle can made in just 10 minutes and less than one dollar. Researcher, professor Robert Wood, to create "softer" robots that are more similar to humans. He said: "Humans are normally soft and brittle to the big industrial robots that you might on an assembly line. The next step is to this system and develop it into a fully functional robot." Dr Daniela Rus that the robots could be like the human hand. They could strong enough to any object firmly, while being soft and gentle.