Soft Robotics 01: Flexible Microactuator

FMA(フレキシブルマイクロアクチュエータ,1989)
FMA ( flexible microactuator), pneumatic rubber actuator with 3 DOF
Koichi SUZUMORI, Shoichi IIKURA and Hirohisa TANAKA, Development of Flexible Microactuator and Its Applications to Robotic Mechanisms, Proc. IEEE International. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 1989), (Apr.1991), pp.1622-1627.

[@1Rab]

Was very impressed the way it handled a contact lense

[@soniamh1]

I wonder if this device could be coupled to a prosthetic arm...

[@wenyeouyang9201]

Hat off to Prof. Suzumori and his colleagues. Many years later, we are still basically reinventing what he has created in 1989...

[@corbanx0809]

this is sooo cool.. and scary at the same time ^^

[@yousorooo]

Of course these stuff would be from Tokyo

[@rinoferdian]

Can I get the reference for twisting microactuators like in 0:52?

[@simon_far]

As seen at 0:30 each of the three sections of the actuator has two separate tubes, filling just one of each (say, the one farther clockwise) will cause the entire actuator to twist (in my example, it would twist counter-clockwise).

[@KsanaKsini]

#ImaginePossibilities huehuehuehue

[@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi-]

Everyone woman in the world just went "HNNNNNNNNNNNG".

[@nfernalDrago]

the origins of tentacle porn?

[@dsamh]

Japan.. ofc

[@rhni598]

How to buy it?

[@johnrom8787]

+倪瑞宏 aliexpress )))

[@Cyberdactyl]

This will be a block buster in remote porn devices. 01:14

[@MickeyMH1]

Enough hentai for today

[@kp275850]

Кажется я знаю где эта штука найдёт применение...

[@mq-r3apz291]

I had no clue tokyo was trying to build baymax way back 1989😂

[@FabioRaitz]

Japan creating robotic tentacles...

[@王亚西-n5h]

how to buy it