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After years of hype, EAPs may soon live up to their potential. The new polymers work quite a bit like biology. Real muscles are bundles of fibers that contract in response to electrical alerts from adjacent nerves, with a sensitivity and fluidity of movement unmatched by machines. But EAPs come shut: Electricity causes a controlled, exact change within the polymer's form. By distinction, piezoelectric crystals - a material generally utilized in devices like watches and inkjet printers - do the identical factor, but they endure length modifications of just a fraction of a percent. One EAP utilized by SRI International can grow to 5 times its original measurement. The polymer is wedged between two flexible carbon plates