Artificial Muscles to Get a Grip on Human Hand Next Week

oeMagazine newscast, 2 Mar 2005 Six years ago a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, issued a unique challenge: build a robotic arm using artificial muscles that could arm wrestle a human. The results of that challenge will be determined next week, when three such robotic arms will "step into the ring" to compete against a 17-year-old high school student. The ultimate goal is to win against the strongest human on Earth. Read the article