Will Future Robots Have Superhuman Strength?

Artificial intelligence is slated to grant future robots the brains for world domination, now it turns out they’ll also have the brawn.

A research team from the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Engineering has created artificial muscles that can stretch five times their original length and could give robots the ability to lift up to 80 times their own weight. To put this in perspective, that would roughly be like an average 190-pound man bench pressing a 7.5-ton African elephant. This is a first in the field of robotics and will likely pave the way for life-like robots with superhuman strength. Read more...