Why would anyone wanna waste time and money on an R&D on something vulnerable to bacterias, viruses, tumors when you can make artifical muscles from carbon-fiber ?

>>8150797
>when you can make artifical muscles from carbon-fiber
Because you can't make "artifical" muscles from carbon-fiber.

>>8150797
>artifical
>bacterias
:|

Also, because if one cell dies to bacterial/viral infection you just signal a neighbor to divide. Tumors are immortal.

>>8150808
artificial
ɑːtJˈfJʃ(ə)l/
adjective

made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally.

unless you're talking about artificial in another language

>>8150761
>any bioengineering groups actively working on producing actuators for robots made from actual biological muscle fibers?
No because that's stupid. They would rot and smell like shit unless you had them bathed in some sort of concentrated preservatives.

It would be interesting to see a humanoid robot made with something like this though:
http://www.livescience.com/43536-yarn-muscles-100x-stronger-human-muscles.html

wonder if they could make it walk, or at least lift an object.

>>8150761
what a dumb idea

>>8150761
no, we're working on programmable viruses that attack other little bugs. i know its a bit far fetched but we have lots of grant money so whatevs

>>8150761
and yes OP thats a stupid question

>>8150827
>unless you had them bathed in some sort of concentrated preservatives
You just nullified your own point. I never said it would be the muscle alone, obviously you'd need some kind of encasing that could cycle oxygen, remove lactic acid, etc. Adding some kind of immune system would be a challenge but not insurmountable.

And I'm aware of those nylon wire muscles, but I'm also aware of the fact that anything actuated by heat stands zero chance of being used outside of academia.

>>8150797
>Why would anyone wanna waste time and money on an R&D on something that can repair itself and fend off disease?