- Clone Robotics is going to impressive lengths to make sure its “intelligent androids” will have some of the most human-like hands in the business, and watching the way their hydraulic “muscles” move under a transparent skin is absolutely hypnotic.
- You can see a version of this muscle being tested in the video below; it certainly contracts impressively quickly given how it works, but you can see the designers having to cool it with a water spray to get the thing to relax.
- It seems that on the current prototype, Clone has gone back to a simpler hydraulic system to drive the muscles, distributing pressure from a 500-watt, 145-psi water pump through a series of 36 electro-hydraulic valves, each with its own pressure sensor.
Clone gets deep into the uncanny valley with its lifelike robotic hand
