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"Artificial muscle for soft robotics: Low voltage, high hopes"
Soft actuator could be 'holy grail' for soft robotics
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
July 21, 2016
Graphene-coated nylon as artificial muscle
Published on Nov 23, 2016
MIT researchers developed graphene-coated nylon fibers that bend when heated with laser pulses. In the video, two laser modules are facing each other with the nylon beam coated with thermally conductive paint in the middle. Such nylon filaments are inexpensive to manufacture and could be used to create bending artificial muscle fibers.
Credit:
Multidirectional Artificial Muscles from Nylon
Seyed M. Mirvakili, Ian W. Hunter
Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201604734
2016 UCR today a Wolverine inspired material
Published on Dec 23, 2016
Article "A Wolverine Inspired Material"Inspired by the comic book character Wolverine’s ability to self-heal, Chao Wang, an adjunct assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, and other researchers have developed a transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable material that can be electrically activated and could be used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots.
Researchers create a self-healing, transparent, highly stretchable material that can be electrically activated and used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots
by Sean Nealon
December 23, 2016
Article "Wolverine Superhero Inspires Self-Healing Material for Robot Muscles"
This futuristic polymer material can stretch to 50 times its original length, and then knit itself back together when it breaks.
by Glenn Mcdonald
December 29, 2016
Soft materials for soft actuators
Published on Sep 19, 2017
"One Step Closer to Lifelike Robots"One Step Closer to Lifelike Robots
A self-contained soft actuator three times stronger than natural muscle, without the need of externals, signals a breakthrough in soft robotics.
The artificial muscle in use as a bicep lifts a skeleton’s arm to a 90 degree position.
Researchers at Columbia Engineering have solved a long-standing issue in the creation of untethered soft robots whose actions and movements can help mimic natural biological systems. Aslan Miriyev and Kenneth Stack, in the Creative Machines lab led by Hod Lipson, professor of mechanical engineering, have developed a 3D-printable synthetic soft muscle, a one-of-a-kind artificial active tissue with intrinsic expansion ability that does not require an external compressor or high voltage equipment as previous muscles required.
A self-contained soft actuator three times stronger than natural muscle, without the need of externals, signals a breakthrough in soft robotics.
September 19, 2017
Why scientists are giving robots human muscles
Published on Aug 9, 2018
Human-robot hybrids are advancing quickly, but the applications aren't just for complete synthetic humans. There's a lot we can learn about ourselves in the process.
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