Scientists from the National Taiwan University have discovered onions covered in gold can function as artificial muscles for robots.
Sky News reports the team found the vegetable's skin is able to stretch and flex like real tissue, an ability which scientists have previously been unable to replicate.
It's been discovered that coating the skin in a film of gold enables an electrical current to be used to make the "muscle" expand or contract. Tests were done by freeze drying a single layer of skin to remove all water, before it was treated with a protein designed to make it brittle and then paint on gold.
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Sky News reports the team found the vegetable's skin is able to stretch and flex like real tissue, an ability which scientists have previously been unable to replicate.
It's been discovered that coating the skin in a film of gold enables an electrical current to be used to make the "muscle" expand or contract. Tests were done by freeze drying a single layer of skin to remove all water, before it was treated with a protein designed to make it brittle and then paint on gold.
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