Androids: application of EAP as artificial muscles to entertainment industry

David F. Hanson; Giovanni Pioggia; Yoseph Bar-Cohen; Danilo De Rossi

doi:10.1117/12.432689

16 July 2001 Androids: application of EAP as artificial muscles to entertainment industry

David F. Hanson, Giovanni Pioggia, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Danilo De Rossi

Proceedings Volume 4329, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432689
Event: SPIE's 8th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, 2001, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

The classic movie Metropolis (1926), which is nowadays considered a cinema milestone, has shown the possibility to build robots called androids that are science and fiction run together to realize a dream: the human-like robot. In that movie, Dr. Rotwang transforms a simple and cold calculating robot into the body of a beautiful woman. Robots have often been depicted as metal creatures with cold steel bodies, but there is no reason why metals should be the only kind of material for construction of robots. The authors examined the issues related to applying electroactive polymers materials (EAP) to the entertainment industry. EAP are offering attractive characteristics with the potential to produce more realistic models of living creatures at significantly lower cost. This paper seeks to elucidate how EAP might infiltrate and ultimately revolutionize entertainment, showing some applicative examples.

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David F. Hanson, Giovanni Pioggia, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, and Danilo De Rossi "Androids: application of EAP as artificial muscles to entertainment industry", Proc. SPIE 4329, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices, (16 July 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432689

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