I’m working on developing a new kind of flexible linear actuator for robotics and prosthetics. Essentially an artificial muscle. If we can make production economical it’ll make a big difference in how energy efficient and human-like robots and prosthetics can be. I think it’s plainly evident that traditional electric motors and servo actuators are a big limitation on robots in how well they can mimic human level functions, like grasping and walking. A robot might only have a handful of actuators in their legs to walk, if evolution could have found a way to walk proficiently with so few muscles as their are actuators in a robot like the Tesla bot, it would have. Can’t speak too much about the specifics of how it works, but its using electromagnets, no pneumatics or electrostatics or shape changing polymers etc. I have interest from a few uni research groups in my city, but we’re always on the lookout for groups who might be good alpha or beta candidates. My email is zak at zerocubic dot com