Ordinary sewing thread can have superhuman power. That’s according to researchers at UT Dallas who discovered fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to powerful artificial muscles — ...

University of Texas at Dallas researchers and their international collaborators have made artificial muscles in a variety of sizes from ordinary polymer fishing line. Credit: University of Texas at ...

Twisted fishing line could one day power realistic robots and prosthetic limbs, according to a new study. An international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas ...

Scientists say they have created muscle fibers that are 100 times more powerful than human muscles, using only ordinary fishing line and sewing thread. They hope the muscles can help people who wear ...

Researchers have transformed everyday plastic fibers into super strong artificial muscles just by twisting them like rubber bands until they coil up. Since these materials are cheaper than high-tech ...

Scientists have discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to powerful artificial muscles. The new muscles can lift a hundred times more weight and generate a ...

Forget push-ups. The key to superhuman strength can be found in everyday items like sewing thread and fishing line. Through extreme twisting, these polymer fibers can be transformed into artificial ...

The next artificial muscle, for either robotics or medical applications, will need to be strong, and it will need to be flexible. Right now, carbon nanotubes reign supreme as the strongest artificial ...

Fishing line and sewing thread can create powerful artificial muscles that could be used to help disabled people or to build incredibly strong robots, a new study says. Compared to human muscle of the ...

An international team of researchers, including three from South Korea, have created an artificial muscle that is 100 times more powerful than human ones by using ordinary fishing lines and sewing ...

This wouldn’t be the first artificial muscle on the market: there are carbon nanotube yarns and metal wires, but they’re often expensive or store relatively low amounts of energy compared to their ...