QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON IMAGE: AN ELECTRIC SELF-SENSING AND VARIABLE-STIFFNESS ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE. CREDIT: CHEN LIU ET. AL, ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS In a study published recently in Advanced Intelligent Systems, researchers from Queen Mary University of London have made significant advancements in the field of bionics with the development of a new type of electric variable-stiffness artificial muscle that possesses...
JULY 18TH, 2022 CONN HASTINGS MATERIALS, REHAB Engineers at the University of California Los Angeles created artificial muscles that are stronger and more flexible than the real thing. The new material is an example of a dielectric elastomer, which is an electroactive polymer that can change its shape or size when stimulated using electricity. The researchers...
by University of Freiburg Scheme of the artificial protein muscle design, fabrication, and application. a) Natural muscle characteristics. Inspired by nature’s high-performance materials elastin and resilin. b) Novel protein genes are designed to biotechnologically produce the corresponding recombinant proteins. c) Yielding a pH-responsive protein (DSY)16 d) upper sequence in red) and a temperature-responsive protein (VRY)16...
By Michael Irving April 30, 2021 An example of supercoiling in the artificial muscles (right), compared to the looser twist (left)Geoff Spinks. Tiny robots could serve all kinds of useful functions, but shrinking their actuators has proven challenging. Now researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia have made artificial muscles that surpass your...
