Xuelin Wu

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Penn engineers build artificial muscles that sense their own position

Co-author on the CoilLCE control work

A robotic finger presses a piano key, pauses, then moves to the next note. Across the lab, an artificial eye shifts its gaze through a series of controlled stops. Both run on the same new component: a fiber that contracts like a muscle and reports where it is mid-contraction.

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