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What kind of efficiency do human muscles get?



Depends on the human and, I suspect, the task. Also, it's hard to compare since muscles are not powered electrically, they are powered chemically. But the estimates I'm familiar with say somewhere north of 50%. Wikipedia says 25%.

Human muscle also has a bandwidth in the ~2-5 Hz range.

See:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144848/




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