Electro-conjugate fluid jet-driven micro artificial antagonistic muscle actuators and their integration

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1929-1943

  Yokota, Shinichi ^a   Yajima, Fumiya ^a   Takemura, Kenjiro ^b   Edamura, Kazuya ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

antagonistic; electro conjugate fluid jet; functional fluid; Robot hand; soft actuator

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149329141     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/016918610X529048     Document Type: Article

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