{"id":451,"date":"2025-10-30T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:23:22","slug":"korean-researchers-develop-super-strong-artificial-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/korean-researchers-develop-super-strong-artificial-muscle\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Researchers Develop Super-Strong Artificial Muscle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korean researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking artificial muscle that can lift approximately 4,000 times its own weight, with potential applications in the next generation of humanoid robots.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A defining innovation in the muscle\u2019s design lies in its unique ability to switch between flexibility and tautness on demand\u2014a first-of-its-kind advancement in this area of research. The team detailed their findings in a study published on September 7 in the journal <em>Advanced Functional Materials<\/em>.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis research addresses a fundamental limitation of conventional artificial muscles: they are typically either highly stretchable but weak, or strong yet rigid,\u201d explained lead author Hoon Eui Jeong, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), in an official statement. \u201cOur composite material achieves both properties, paving the way for more versatile soft robots, wearable technologies, and intuitive human-machine interfaces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean researchers have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62,61,60,16],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deep-tech","tag-human-machine","tag-muscle","tag-south-korea","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}