Science's Potential to Create New Markets.(Brief Article)

American Demographics;  July 1, 2002 ;     764 words ...Byline: SANDRA YIN AD: What is the artificial muscle made of? JM: It's composed of an...about the technology behind this artificial muscle? JM: The first generation of conducting...through its tires. AD: How might artificial muscle change the way we live? JM: An exoskeleton...

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 ;     787 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 ;     787 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...

Massachusetts Inventor Develops Visual Prosthesis

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 12, 2007 ;     194 words ......a vision prosthesis with artificial muscle actuator. According to the...visual prosthesis includes an artificial muscle configured to deform in response to a focusing signal. The artificial muscle is coupled to at least a...

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...

San Jose, Calif.-Area Start-Up Flexes Its Artificial Muscles.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  May 19, 2004 ;     356 words ......polymers produced by his company Artificial Muscle respond to an electrical charge in...says Beavers, chief executive of Artificial Muscle, a Menlo Park start-up. Beavers sees...Advanced Research Projects Agency. Artificial Muscle was recently spun off as a commercial...

Artificial Muscle Inc.(Company news)(Richard Drabing appointed)(Brief...

Motion System Design;  May 1, 2005 ;     64 words ...Artificial Muscle Inc., Menlo Park, Calif., has appointed Richard Drabing as Director...volume power supply design and manufacture for electroactive polymer artificial muscle technology. Drabing has more than 30 years experience in electronics...

Want to be a Terminator too? Here's how to suit yourself; FLEX APPEAL: THE...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  March 3, 1999 ;   McLean, Jim;   787 words ......several years. He recently delivered an artificial muscle outfit to the US army. It could allow...pick up a rock. The second type of artificial muscle consists of thin sheets wrapped into...also very interested in using the artificial muscle to help astronauts move in their...

Recent SRI spinoffs.(High-Tech Partnership)

Florida Trend;  February 1, 2007 ;     89 words ......and manufactures super-bright LED light engines. * Artificial Muscle Inc. Founded: 2003 Headquarters: Menlo Park, Calif. What It Does: Manufactures electroactive polymer artificial muscle components, which are smaller, lighter, quieter and...