{"id":520764,"date":"2010-04-08T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.greenlaunches.com,2010:\/\/19.54844"},"modified":"2010-04-08T08:17:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:17:01","slug":"mechanical-muscles-shape-memory-actuators-being-developed-by-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520764","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical muscles, shape-memory actuators, being developed by MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MIT_Mechanical_muscles.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0410\/08\/MIT_Mechanical_muscles.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/span><br \/>\nTechnological developments boasting better efficiency are springing up everywhere. The guys at MIT have come up with an innovation to \u201cmuscle up\u201d electronic devices in the future. These shape-memory alloys on heating change shape, acting as mechanical muscles that produce three to six times more torque and weigh one-20th. These devices known as actuators to be used in electronic devices are cut out from flat metal sheets, a fraction of a millimeter thick. <\/p>\n<p>Rectangular notches chiseled into a metal alloy increases electrical resistance. The material around these rectangular notches heats up when an electric current passes. These shape-memory actuators use this principal and are expected to exert a force, 160 times of their own weight. These tiny muscle-like devices being developed by MIT could help increase energy efficiency of electronics in future.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MIT_Mechanical_muscles2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0410\/08\/MIT_Mechanical_muscles2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-04\/mits-tiny-mechanical-muscles-could-power-tomorrows-robotic-gizmos\">Popsci<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technological developments boasting better efficiency are springing up everywhere. The guys at MIT have come up with an innovation to \u201cmuscle up\u201d electronic devices in the future. These shape-memory alloys on heating change shape, acting as mechanical muscles that produce three to six times more torque and weigh one-20th. These devices known as actuators to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}