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Best artificial muscle technology

Published on Jun 22, 2014

Researchers in japan has developed the most advanced artificial muscle ever made

 

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Public Release
"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

 

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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

 

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2016 UCR today a Wolverine inspired material

Published on Dec 23, 2016

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.

Article "A Wolverine Inspired Material"
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

 

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Article "Growing healthy resilient biological tissues on humanoid robots"

by Kassie Perlongo
May 12, 2017

 

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Soft materials for soft actuators

Published on Sep 19, 2017

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.

"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.

September 19, 2017

 

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Artificial muscles are becoming more human-like

Published on Jan 11, 2018

 

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A new center for artificial muscles

Published on May 2, 2018

A CHF 12 million donation from the Fondation Werner Siemens will allow EPFL, the Inselspital Bern, and the University Hospital Zurich to develop a Center for artificial muscles.

 

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These robots use living muscle tissue to mimic human fingers

Published on May 31, 2018

Researchers are designing artificial muscles that will more closely imitate human movement.

 

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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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The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future | Christoph Keplinger

Published on May 7, 2019

Robot brains are getting smarter and smarter, but their bodies are often still clunky and unwieldy. Mechanical engineer Christoph Keplinger is designing a new generation of soft, agile robot inspired by a masterpiece of evolution: biological muscle. See these "artificial muscles" expand and contract like the real thing and reach superhuman speeds -- and learn how they could power prosthetics that are stronger and more efficient than human limbs.

 

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’Artificial muscle’ makes paper doll do sit-ups - Headline Science

Published on Jul 17, 2019

Researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have made a foil “paper doll” sit up using polymer covalent organic frameworks (polyCOFs). ACS Headline Science shows how the team made and tested these potentially useful new materials.

“PolyCOFs: A New Class of Freestanding Responsive Covalent Organic Framework Membranes with High Mechanical Performance” – Yao Chen, Ph.D., Shengqian Ma, Ph.D., and Zhenjie Zhang, Ph.D. (corresponding authors)

 

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Article "DNA-inspired ‘supercoiling’ fibres could make powerful artificial muscles for robots"

by Geoff Spinks
April 28, 2021

 

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Musculoskeletal robot based on anatomy of giraffe neck

Mar 18, 2022

Suzumori Endo Lab, Tokyo Tech has developed Musculoskeletal robot based on anatomy of giraffe necks.

Project members:
Atsuhiko Niikura, Yuta Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Nabae, Gen Endo, Megu Gunji, Kent Mori, Ryuma Niiyama, Koichi Suzumori

Atsuhiko Niikura, Hiroyuki Nabae, Gen Endo, Megu Gunji, Kent Mori, Ryuma Niiyama, Koichi Suzumori, "Giraffe Neck Robot: First Step Toward a Powerful and Flexible Robot Prototyping Based on Giraffe Anatomy," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3539-3546, April 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3146611.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9695190

 

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Article "A new type of material called a mechanical neural network can learn and change its physical properties to create adaptable, strong structures"

by Ryan H. Lee
October 19, 2022

 

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Article "Biodegradable artificial muscles: Going green in the field of soft robotics"

by Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
March 22, 2023