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Wearable Muscles

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Re: Wearable Muscles

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Post by KennyBlanken »

That prop notebook is hilarious. Multiple pen colors. Figures of...something, marked "Figure 3." And our "scientist" adds a median box to a plot with no tic marks or labels.

It's like the "please pipette some colored fluids for the cameras" of the bio world.

Re: Wearable Muscles

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Post by leobg »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #2

That prop notebook is hilarious. Multiple pen colors. Figures of...something, marked "Figure 3." And our "scientist" adds a median box to a plot with no tic marks or labels. It's like the "please pipette some colored fluids for the cameras" of the bio world.

You seem to get downvoted. But I noticed that notebook, too. And it made me chuckle. I don't think it's dismissiveness. It's a sense of humor.

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Post by rexf »

Looking forward to the future where wearable exoskeletons/exomuscle provide endurance, possible reduced injury, strength, etc.

If the market is going to sell us AR glasses, a wearable ecosystem could provide battery power and shift weight around (away from your head). This system would provide power for any number of accessories (phone, watch, earbuds, etc).

Re: Wearable Muscles

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Post by leobg »

My immediate thought was: We could use those to power wings and fly!

You see, I spent the last weeks reading up on Otto Lilienthal. And while we might think that we have already "cracked" flying, we actually haven't. Humans still cannot fly. We can only board. What we do not have achieved is the sense of "flying like a bird", which Lilienthal was after. The idea that you control your movements through the air directly, not mediated through knobs and buttons, but by using your own body.

Motors that provide rotational power are not suited for wings. The are suited only to propellers. So that's where artificial muscles perhaps would be able to shine.

Also, I imagine that a bird needs to have fine-grained sense perception in its wings, to be able to compensate for subtle differences in air speed and pressure. And it seems that this is something these researchers are doing as well, with those sensors embedded in the fabric.

Re: Wearable Muscles

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Post by beanjuice »

dbcooper wrote: post #4

Anyone know how to download the Nature "Sharedit" pdfs?

I assume you are referring to the link in the article to [0], for me there is a button labelled 'PDF' with a "download arrow" in the upper right next to print. Perhaps there is an extension blocking the button/function?

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00495-3.epdf?shar...

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