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by WanderPanda 1992 days ago
I never heard of HASEL artificial muscles and just looked them up. Very interesting! But the main downside seems to be the high voltage requirement. Hopefully there are more innovations in the space of robotic actuators. I hate that servos usually are not compliant and rather are controlled by position and not by torque / force. I believe active compliance is not a real replacement for passive compliance in most use cases