Folks,

Not sure if anyone caught the blurb in the Dec/Jan issue of MIT's Technology
review (pg 18) about some researchers (Michael Goldfarb & Eric Barth) from
Vanderbilt Univ using catalyzed peroxide for a high powered actuators for
robots.  I have a link to the article, but it is a subscribers only access
piece (sigh).  http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/prototype1202.asp

They have applied for a patent and hope to have it commercially available in
the next 3 years.  Basically the idea is that they are trying to get more
power out of robots and want to get around the limitations imposed by
batteries and electric motors while staying in a small form factor.  Not
sure if they can commercialize it, but any "good" publicity about peroxide
can't hurt.

-Tom Williams

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