MEMS actuators fight robot tug-of-war

LONDON – YouTube has a video that shows the results of a number of "tug-of-war" matches between MEMS electrothermal actuators belonging to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Kyoto University.An electrothermal actuator is also known as a heatuator.

The basic rules were that to win a MEMS heatuator should pull its rival by 8-microns and hold for at least one minute with a maximum powers supply voltage of 100-V.



As you can see the battle was from 2011 but I'd like to know who won, apart from G4, that is. HKUST or Kyoto?

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