as well as a great starting point for DIY robotics. This “Pneupard” is actuated entirely by PAMs (Video source). Electroactive Polymers (EAP) Polymer-based artificial muscles save themselves ...

Electroactive polymers (EAPs) are materials that change shape or size when stimulated by an electric field. This unique property makes them ideal candidates for creating artificial muscles and ...

Electroactive Polymers for Robotics Applications covers the fundamental properties, modelling and demonstration of EAPs in robotic applications, focusing particularly on artificial muscles and sensors ...

Poland-based Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones. The company ...

Poland's Clone Robotics reveals Protoclone V1, a lifelike android with 200+ degrees of freedom, 1,000 Myofibers, and 500 ...

Shortly after pausing a video showing some of his earliest creations — snake- and fish-shaped robots ... systems. Artificial muscles on Takagi’s radar include ionic polymer–metal composites ...

Although the fabrication process looks a bit daunting, we love the results of working with electro-active polymers ... It has an effect very similar to muscle wire but distributed over a larger ...

Startups from outside the UK are also contributing. Denmark’s Pliantics will create soft linear actuators, which will serve ...

For decades, scientists have been working toward creating artificial muscle that could help mobilize prosthetics, power robots ... led a study of a new polymer with muscle-like qualities.

A new era of humanoid robotics is unfolding, and fueling it is Protoclone, a newly launched synthetic human that can move, and "bleed", and more.