Hey… I’ve been looking at muscle wires…
I’ve checked the FAQ for them, but I still don’t understand their full capabilities. Does anyone know if it would be plausible to make a strong robot out of multiple high-strength muscle wires? Or would one need too many wires to make it feesible? Could these be applied to humanoid bipeds?
Hello,
muscle wires (nitinol) are perfect for tiny robot !
but Nitinol is slower than a servo and it’s not powerful.
you can’t build a strong robot with that…no way to replace a standard servo with it.
A multiple muscle wires could works better, but the power consumption will be very increased.
Oooooh…
This gives me ideas…
I shall create an army of baby humanoid bipeds! Muahahahaha.
Actually, all I would need is one small biped made out of muscle wire, attatched to my my large biped with an umbilical chord for battery and brain power. Then it could run around with a tiny pair of scissors and snip my opponent’s servo wires.
Muahahahaha.
Alas, this is not legal in Robo One tournaments.
If I recall correctly, isn’t Nitinol only one type of muscle wire? Maybe the other types would be more reliable. I have seen muscle wire used to make very small and lightweight hexapod walkers, but never a biped. That would be interesting…
Check this place out: robotstore.com/mwfaq.asp
Muscle wires would not provide the precision needed to make a biped work. Not to say it can’t be done but it would prove to be extremely difficult. Muscle wires could be used to make fingers on a hand move as a more practical application.
I am in the process of using Flexinol muscle wires in a (4) strands of 100 micron muscle wire bundle on either side of segment joint to provide control of articulation on a (5) segment polypod project. Still in the code debugging stage at this point but results do look promising.
ooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooh!
That sounds rather interesting.
Keep us updated!
