Artificial muscle - Wikipedia
Artificial muscles, also known as muscle-like actuators, are materials or devices that mimic natural muscle and can change their stiffness, reversibly contract, expand, or rotate within one component due to an external stimulus (such as voltage, current, pressure or temperature). [1]
Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force - MIT News
Jul 11, 2019 · MIT researchers have created a fiber-based, lightweight, fast-acting artificial muscle that could be useful for robotics and for prosthetics.
Artificial Muscles: Mechanisms, Applications, and Challenges
Dec 18, 2017 · Recent advances in nanomaterial fabrication and characterization, specifically carbon nanotubes and nanowires, have had major contributions in the development of artificial muscles. However, what can artificial muscles really do for humans?
Biomimetic high performance artificial muscle built on …
May 18, 2021 · Artificial muscle materials promise incredible applications in actuators, robotics and medical apparatus, yet the ability to mimic the full characteristics of skeletal muscles into synthetic...
A comparative review of artificial muscles for microsystem
Nov 23, 2021 · Artificial muscles are capable of generating actuation in microsystems with outstanding compliance. Recent years have witnessed a growing academic interest in artificial muscles and their...
Artificial Muscle Research Initiative
Feb 27, 2022 · If you wish to receive complimentary samples of polymeric artificial muscles, please contact Professor Mohsen Shahinpoor-Historic affiliation between The FacioScapuloHumeral(FSH) Muscular Dystrophy Society (http://www.fshsociety.org) and Artificial Muscle Research Institute (AMRI).
Artificial HASEL Muscle Inspired By Nature Costs 10 Cents to Make
Jan 5, 2018 · Turning to nature, the University of Colorado Boulder scientists set out to engineer a lifelike muscle that was cheap, flexible, and strong. Their work, published in Science and Science Robotics...
Bionic Breakthrough: Revolutionary Self-Sensing Electric Artificial Muscles
Jul 17, 2023 · Queen Mary University researchers have engineered a self-sensing, variable-stiffness artificial muscle that mimics natural muscle characteristics. The breakthrough has significant implications for soft robotics and medical applications, moving a step closer to human-machine integration.
Artificial muscles – lighter, safer, more robust | ETH Zurich
Jan 30, 2024 · Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed artificial muscles that are lighter, safer and more robust than their predecessors. The newly developed actuators have a novel type of shell structure and use a high-permittivity ferroelectric material that can store relatively large amounts of electrical energy.
Frontiers | Advances in artificial muscles: A brief literature and ...
Jan 18, 2023 · Materials science, mechanical and automation, and robotics are the three fields related to artificial muscles most. Types of artificial muscles like pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) and dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) are maturing.