This robotic torso by Clone boasts artificial muscles that look slightly creepy without skin or some type of covering. It does however include an actuated elbow, cervical spine (neck), and anthropomorphic shoulders with the sternoclavicular, acromioclavicular, scapulothoracic and glenohumeral joints.
What you may not be able to see in this short video is that the valve matrix fits compactly inside the ribcage. Torso says that bimanual manipulation training is currently in progress. What’s next? Integrating this robotic torso into a bipedal humanoid robot like Tesla’s Optimus or Unitree’s G1.
- Build your own awesome, wearable mechanical hand that you operate with your own fingers.
- No motors, no batteries — just the power of air pressure, water, and your own hands!
- Hydraulic pistons enable the mechanical fingers to open and close and grip objects with enough force to lift them. Every finger joint can be adjusted...
Artificial muscles are 100% the solution to robotics but not sure whether it’s going to be water. One thing for certain though, there’s reasons why nature gave animals muscles, it’s because they’re efficient and flexible more than anything,” said one commenter.
