A New Twist on Artificial Muscles
From: Technology Review - 10/14/2011
By: Prachi Patel

Carbon nanotube yarns produce as much torque as an electric motor.

Researchers have created artificial muscles that can twist 1,000 times more
than any suitable material made in the past - a development that could prove
useful in robots and prosthetic limbs. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38866/?mod=chthumb

Links:
Ray Baughman
http://nanotech.utdallas.edu/personnel/staff/baughman.html

Nanotech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas
http://nanotech.utdallas.edu/

Ray Baughman creates artificial muscles
http://earthsky.org/biomimicry/ray-baughman-creates-artificial-muscles