The latest robotic development from Discovery news:

Two new kinds of super-strong artificial muscles can convert chemical energy into a mechanical force, making them function like natural muscles, to according to a study.

The muscles, which are 100 times stronger than the real thing, were reported by Von Howard Ebron and colleageus, from the University of Texas at Dallas’ NanoTech Institute, in the March 17 issue of Science.

Such muscles could be used to move robots and robotic exoskeletons, or as part of structures on air and marine vehicles that morph into different shapes.

You know what this means, right? Fucking Transformers! Soon robots will be folding up and turning into semis and airplanes and boomboxes and the world is going to be just perfect.