video: Fishing line is twisted to the point of coiling to make an artificial muscle. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 21, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Carter S. Haines at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas, and colleagues was titled, "Artificial Muscles from Fishing Line and Sewing Thread." view more
Credit: [Video courtesy of University of Texas at Dallas]