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Biological muscles come with a lot of baggage, very constrained operating environments, and limited endurance.

It’s not just that ‘we don’t know how to build them’, it’s that the actuators aren’t a standalone part - and we don’t know how to build (or maintain/run in industrial enviroments!) the ‘other stuff’ economically either.




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