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Professor Markus Buehler publishes paper in Science Advances on using spider silk for robotic muscles

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Mar 08, 2019
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Professor Markus Buehler publishes paper in Science Advances on using spider silk for robotic muscles
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McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler, former postdoc Anna Tarakanova and Claire Hsu ’20 published a paper in Science Advances about the use of spider silk for robotics muscles. The spider silk’s robustness and ability to contract and twist above a certain level of relative humidity in the air could assist in the creation of artificial muscles for soft robotics or smart fabrics. Read more on MIT News.

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