A micro artificial muscle actuator using electro-conjugate fluid

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 532-537

  Takemura, Kenjiro ^a   Yokota, Shinichi ^a   Edamura, Kazuya ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CEO of New Technology Management Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial muscle; Functional fluid; Microactualor; Soft actuator; Soft robot

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FLOW OF FLUIDS; ION EXCHANGE; JETS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; ELECTRO CONJUGATE FLUID; FUNCTIONAL FLUID; SOFT ACTUATORS; SOFT ROBOTS;

MICROACTUATORS;

EID: 33846169779     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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