Wrestling the muscle-bots
added Wed Aug 09 16:11 2006 ET from New Scientist
It was a poor showing by the [arm-wrestling] bots.... The catch was that the robot arms used artificial muscles, a still-nascent technology which mimics the action of the human equivalent.
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