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by YeGoblynQueenne 3124 days ago
Thanks for answering. I looked at the video again and I can see that a couple of setups use multiple muscles- that's what you're talking about I think. I'm guessing that it's going to be a lot easier to wrap a hundred individual muscles of this kind around an artificial skeleton than it is with "hard" ones.

I wonder also what all this means for more, let's say, traditional robots- like the ones we often see from Boston Dynamics. I guess it's still early to say but if I understand this correctly, people can now make cheap, light robots. Where does that leave heavy, expensive ones?

It's not a rhetorical question- Ferrari and McLaren didn't hang up their spanners just because Toyota and Datsun sell lots of cheap cars...