Artificial muscles flex appeal of nanobots for medical applications

An Australian collaborative research program recently developed an artificial muscle that can twist, and could one day be used to propel nanobots for medical diagnostic and treatment applications.

The Australiam Research Council (ARC) Center of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, which is a combination of six research organizations intent on electromaterials exploration, also provides an animated illustration of the new device. "Their rotating flagella are highlighted with some detail of the flagella motor turning the 'hook' and 'filament' parts of the tail," according to the ARC news release. "We next see a similar type of rotating tail produced by a length of carbon nanotube thread that is inside a futuristic microbot."