Artificial muscles based on electroactive polymers as an enabling tool in biomimetics

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

Volumn 221, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1149-1156

  Bar Cohen, Y ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial muscles; Biologically inspired technologies; Biomimetics; Electroactive polymers; Robotics

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; CHARACTERIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; ROBOTICS;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER;

BIOPOLYMERS;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; BIOPOLYMERS; CHARACTERIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; ROBOTICS;

EID: 35748946341     PISSN: 09544062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544062JMES510     Document Type: Article

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