[Carl Bugeja] has taken the idea and in a sense turned it upon its head with his flexible PCB actuator. Now the line of electromagnets are the moving part and the magnetic object the stationary one.

[Carl Bugeja] has been using them to create flexible actuators, though, and he’s getting an amazing 100,000,000 cycles out of them after some rigorous development. [Carl] explores all manner of ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and ...

To create a safer, more practical robot, Professor Ryan Truby and his team developed a soft, flexible actuator that enables robots to move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle. To ...

His team was inspired by these attributes to design electrostatic actuators which are flexible, controllable, powerful and scalable. These use the electrostatic force between two oppositely ...