Attempts to Develop Artificial Muscles

Abstract

This chapter firstly demonstrates that the compliance of the pneumatic artificial muscles plays important role to modulate some robot behaviors. Then, it discusses our attempt to realize Xenopus-noid, a robot constructed by a 3D printer driven by real muscles. We demonstrate that the robot can swim and jump by using the living muscles. It finally mentions our attempt to develop artificial muscles from living cells, which will be very important technique to realize mech-bio hybrid robot.