Instead, he has built something that will also be crucial for future androids: artificial muscles.

He and his colleagues have made two types of artificial muscles.

The basic unit will become a platform to try out other technologies such as artificial muscles.

But biomimetics researchers aren't waiting around for the ultimate artificial muscle.

Among other things, he wanted to use smart gels to build artificial muscles.

The physical changes associated with this charging and discharging has been discussed as a form of artificial muscle.

His artificial muscles do eventually fatigue, but he can perform at full exertion for many hours without tiring.

An example is the pneumatic artificial muscle, or the air muscle.

To achieve flight, they created artificial muscles capable of beating the wings 120 times per second.

She raised her hand between them and sent its artificial muscles another command.