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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs...
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 05:56:00 GMT
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On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:56:01 -0700) it happened john larkin
<jl@650pot.com> wrote in <rt59ejhlnne1d7tbcs0r32ke3ic9lddcht@4ax.com>:

>On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:00:38 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>Artificial muscles propel a robotic leg to walk and jump:
>> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240909113111.htm
>>
>>quote:
>> "
>> The actuators are oil-filled plastic bags, similar to those used to make ice cubes.
>> About half of each bag is coated on either side with a black electrode made of a conductive material.
>> Buchner explains that "as soon as we apply a voltage to the electrodes,
>> they are attracted to each other due to static electricity.
>> ...
>> "
>>And press the fluid out....
>>So electrostatic actuators!
>
>Science Daily is such nonsense.
>
>"To date, all the machines they have built -- whether for factories or
>elsewhere -- have had one thing in common: they are powered by motors,
>a technology that is already 200 years old."
>
>People "invent" some gadget that is orders of magnitude away from
>being useful, and press release it as a breakthrough, and it gets
>breathlessly published.

Sound like US F35
and people fall for it and buy it too, (often forced with US gun to head).