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title: Girl wrestles robot
date: "2005-03-09T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 720
description: I found the news of Panna Felsen defeating three robotic arms in an arm-wrestling match fascinating, as it proves electroactive polymers are still significantly weaker than biological human muscles.
keywords: [panna felsen, arm-wrestling, robots, electroactive polymers, artificial muscles, nasa]
---

17-year old [Panna Felsen](http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/lommas/eap/amerah/the-human-opponent.htm) [defeats 3 robots](http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7113) in arm-wrestling. The [slashdot comments](http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/08/2314213) are hilarious.