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September 9, 2024

“The first robotic leg with muscles”: breakthrough announced by European researchers

Researchers from ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute have developed a way to power robots with artificial muscles, rather than electronic motors

For the last 70 years, researchers have been developing robots that are powered by motors — a technology that is some 200 years old.

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The difference between a robotic leg powered by a motor and one powered by artificial muscles
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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