Active Textile made of Thin McKibben Muscles

Suzumori Endo Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology created a cloth-like soft mechanism using thin artificial muscles. We name this mechanism "Active Textile". Active textile consist of only artificial muscles and strings. We dream of weaving robots.
Project members:
Tatsuhiro Hiramitsu, Koichi Suzumori, Hiroyuki Nabae, Gen Endo
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Refer to:
Tatsuhiro Hiramitsu, Koichi Suzumori, Hiroyuki Nabae, Gen Endo,
"Experimental Evaluation of Textile Mechanisms made of Artificial Muscles",
The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (Robosoft), MoPS.1, April 2019.
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www-robot.mes.t...
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