Self-healing artificial muscle generates electricity

The Hindustan Times;  March 20, 2008 ;     382 words ......California researchers have developed an artificial muscle that can heal itself while generating...better prosthetics. "We've made an artificial muscle that, when you apply electricity...researchers in California have created an artificial muscle using flexible, ever-more ...

Quieter, more efficient actuation.(INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION)(Artificial...

Sensors Magazine;  March 1, 2006 ;     171 words ...Artificial Muscle Inc., (AMI) has introduced what it calls the world...led to a technology called electroactive polymer artificial muscle, now being commercialized by Artificial Muscle. Electroactive polymers work much like human muscles...

Artificial Muscle Introduces World's First Line of Standard Electroactive...

PR Newswire;  January 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Products Through Application of 'Artificial Muscle' Technology MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Artificial Muscle Inc., (AMI) a high-volume...patented Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscle (EPAM(TM)) technology, announced...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Artificial Muscle Inc. for the Development of...

PR Newswire;  June 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Frost & Sullivan selected Artificial Muscle Inc. (AMI, http://www.artificialmuscle...s patented Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscle(TM) (EPAM(TM)) technology. EPAM's...silent operation characteristics. Artificial Muscle's EPAM technology was originally...

Artificial Muscle.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)

Advanced Materials & Processes;  October 1, 2006 ;     38 words ...Artificial Muscle (AMI) has won an Actuator Technology Product Innovation of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan for the development of the Universal Muscle Actuator, which is based on AMI's patented electroactive polymer artificial muscle.

Chemistry pumps artificial muscle.

TRN Newswire;  January 16, 2006 ;     293 words ......RESEARCH NEWS Much of the research into artificial muscle involves using electricity or temperature...attempts to make chemically driven artificial muscle have yielded tiny, unstable devices...demonstrates that biological-like artificial muscle is possible, and there are routes...

Artificial Muscle Closes $20 Million Series B Round of Financing

Wireless News;  June 6, 2007 ;     339 words ...Wireless News 06-06-2007 Artificial Muscle Closes $20 Million Series...WIRELESS NEWS-June 6, 2007-Artificial Muscle Closes $20 Million Series...http:// www.10meters.com Artificial Muscle, Inc., (AMI), a manufacturer...

POLYMER GEL ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE MAY HAVE HUMAN APPLICATIONS

Biomedical Materials;  May 1, 1992 ;     661 words ...An artificial muscle prototype created from polymer...by Italian researchers for the artificial muscle include a polymer gel-controlled...to the report. The polymer gel artificial muscle is like natural muscle in many...

ALLIEDSIGNAL ANNOUNCES ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  May 21, 1999 ;     115 words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-21-1999 ALLIEDSIGNAL ANNOUNCES ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE Date: 05-21-1999, Friday Section: BUSINESS Edition: All...by one of its researchers has demonstrated a new type of artificial muscle that could eventually be used in a variety of aerospace...

Artificial muscle could help in microscopic surgical operations

Biomedical Materials;  June 1, 1993 ;     427 words ......mm-diameter probes. Hunter's probe, surrounded by its sheath of artificial muscle, would be only 0.5 mm across, and it would not have to...just by turning his or her head. Another application for artificial muscle is to make people themselves stronger, using their own...

US2003205045: artificial muscle.(Patent Watch)(Brief Article)

Medical Device Technology;  March 1, 2004 ;     87 words ......robotics because they could damage human tissue. The muscles transfer an incompressible fluid between two expandable cells in a way that causes one cell to contract while the other expands, resulting in a realistic and effective artificial muscle.

Artificial Muscle Stretches Its Range of Use.(Brief Article)

R & D;  September 1, 2000 ;     235 words ......Engineering Technology division, is trying to keep up with all of the applications this technology promises, such as robotics, artificial muscle, loud-speakers, and solid-state linear actuators. SRI's dielectric elastomer film shows the highest energy density of any...

Artificial muscle 'cures heart rhythm defect'.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 11, 2008 ;     257 words ...AN ARTIFICIAL muscle that could offer hope to sufferers of a common heart problem has been developed by scientists. The implant, called the Atripump...

MATERIALS - ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE IMPLANTS OPEN UP ARRAY OF POSSIBILITIES

Biomedical Materials;  April 1, 1990 ;     339 words ......Ibaraki University near Tokyo, working in a team led by Yoshihito Osada, have developed the PMAA gel. They have shown that an artificial muscle made from the gel contracts at the rate of 0.4 cm/hour when not under load, but slows down to 0.1 cm/hour when lifting...

Surgical correction of human eye refractive errors by active composite...

Rubber World;  November 1, 2006 ;     73 words ......refractive errors like presbyopia, hyperopia, myopia and astigmatism using either pre-tensioned or transcutaneously energized artificial muscle implants. The implants are scleral constrictor bands, segments or ribs for inducing accommodation of a few diopters, to...