Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of nature's book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire. The new technology enables the fabrication of flexible ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shape Memory Medical Inc. announced today that it has entered into a sublicense agreement with a strategic global medical device company. Under the agreement, ...
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Robots you can wear like clothes
Automated weaving of shape-memory alloy fabric muscles enables scalable, lightweight wearable robots that assist multiple ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shape Memory Medical Inc., developer of custom shape memory polymers for endovascular markets, announced that Edward “Ted” Ruppel, President and CEO, is scheduled to ...
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Fabric muscles thinner than hair could reshape wearable robotics design
Researchers from the Advanced Robotics Research Center at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) have built an automated weaving system that continuously produces ultra-thin, shape ...
Generally, when we’re looking to build something that moves we reach for motors, servos, or steppers — which ultimately are all just variations on the same concept. But there are other methods of ...
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