Although sri researchers have shown that it is possible to use artificial muscles to convert kinetic energy into electricity , getting the process started has always been a bit of a problem , because dielectric eaps need a small initial charge in each cycle .

尽管斯坦福国际研究院的研究人员已经证明用人造肌肉将动能转化成电能是有可能的，但启动这一转换过程时总有些麻烦，因为每个电介质电活性聚合物环都需要少量的原始电荷。

And it is precisely by using dielectric eaps in a clever way that , earlier this year , a group of researchers in new zealand managed to get muscles to do something that no living creature has managed to pull off : turn a wheel .

一种巧妙使用电介质型电活性聚合物的方法正是如此，今年年初，新西兰的一组研究人员就设法让人造肌肉去做那些生命体做不了的事情：转动轮子。