Flexinol

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There’s a lot of really boring videos of this material called “Flexinol”. What I find interesting is not the videos, but where the technology can advance to and what it means to robotics and physical response from computerized systems. Flexinol is basically a wire that contracts when a voltage is applied to it, much like the way muscles work. This means that gears and motors could possibly be replaced in the future by strands of this material.