Lifelike (but spooky) robots!
David Jenkins - 19/4/09 at 06:13 PM
Festo
If you like this sort of thing, do a search for "Festo" on YouTube... some amazing stuff, but it's scary how "lifelike"
they're making stuff.
There's also a video on there where an amateur race car team are using those "air muscles" to operate a bike engine gear-shift!
(Found it)
Pneumatic muscle gear shift
(I recommend turning the sound off 
)
[Edited on 19/4/09 by David Jenkins]
Mr Whippy - 20/4/09 at 07:15 AM
cool, rather like the robots, in I Robot
Liam - 20/4/09 at 09:25 PM
Wow! That gear shift linkage only takes about a second to change gear and only requires 2 ginormous pressure vessels and a spagetti of hoses and
valves. Awesome!
Most pointless application of complex technology ever? Gotta love some of those formula SAE cars!