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New Exciting Products for All Artificial Muscles Enthusiasts:

Deluxe Complimentary Package Consisting of Two  Samples of Polymeric Artificial Muscles (0.5cmx2cmx0.2-0.3mm) PLUS the Variable Voltage/Frequency Power Supply and Dynamic Signal Generator, Plus Muscle Samples Mounting Device with Electrodes, US$239 (plus S&H)

Environmental Robots is pleased to announce a new exciting package that will enable all users, researchers, educators, engineers, scientists, customers and curious minds to experiment with IPMCs (Polymeric Artificial Muscles) and see the beauty and the grace of motions, dynamic deformations, sensing, transduction, power harvesting  and frequency dependence of  IPMC Artificial Muscles.  click here to order, 

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Variable Voltage/Frequency Power Supply and Dynamic Voltage Signal Generator, Plus Muscle Samples Mounting Device with Electrodes, US$219 (Plus S&H)

 Environmental Robots is pleased to announce a new exciting product that will enable all users, researchers, educators, engineers, scientists, customers and curious minds dealing with ionic polymeric artificial muscles to apply dynamic voltages ranging from 1 to 9 volts and frequencies ranging from 0.1 Hz to more than 100 Hz (Hertz, cycle/second) to samples of bending/flexing or contractile artificial muscles or micromuscles.   click here to order, 

 

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Deluxe Quadruple Actuator and Sensor Pack US$949

This pack contains two samples of Polymeric Sensors/Transducers (1cmx4cmx0.2-0.3mm) and two samples of Actuators (1cmx4cmx0.2-0.3mm) Plus  A Variable Voltage/Frequency Power Supply and Dynamic Signal Generator as well as a muscle sample mounting clamp with electrodes, as described below:    

                  1)      Pair of Polymeric Sensor/Transducer / Actuator Package  
                        This pair of  sensor/transducer/actuator polymeric samples are primarily for Sensing/Transduction/Actuation in Air but they also do work in a wet polar liquid environment, water, biological tissue and ionic liquid environment. If it is bent, flexed or squeezed, it generates 2-4 millivolts. It can also be used as an actuator in Air and its tip motion in a cantilever mode is about 3-5 millimeters per Volt.   Typical dimensions are (approximately) 1cmx4cmx0.2mm.

                  2)     Pair of Polymeric Actuator / Sensor / Transducer Package           
                        This pair of actuator/ sensor/transducer polymeric element is primarily for Actuation in Air but they also do work in a wet polar liquid environment, water, biological tissue and ionic liquid environment.  If a voltage of 2-4 volts is applied to the sample, it draws a maximum current of about 150 mA and its tip motion in a cantilever mode will be about 10-20 millimeters. This actuator weighs about 0.1 gm and exerts a maximum tip force (blocking force in a cantilever mode) of about 4 gmf. It can also respond to various dynamic voltage signals such as sinusoidal, square wave, triangular wave, saw tooth wave, etc.   If it is bent, flexed or squeezed, it generates 2-4 millivolts. In a moist environment or in water this element can also actuate and sense in a much more enhanced and spectacular manner. Its band-width in actuation and sensing is in KHz regimes.  Typical dimensions are (approximately) 1cmx4cmx0.3mm. These actuator/sensor/transducer elements are made from Perfluorinated polymers and come ready to use for any kind of bending/ flexing/ transduction actuation as well as vibration/motion sensing or structural dynamics or health monitoring and testing applications. The force density of these actuators are more than 40gmf/gm of actuator weight in a cantilever mode. 

       

 To order this package,  click here

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Quadruple Actuator and Sensor Pack US$789,

This pack contains four Polymeric Sensor and Actuator Elements (1cmx4cmx0.20-0.3mm) as described below: 

   
                              1)     Polymeric Sensor  / Actuator / Transducer 

These sensor/actuator/transducer polymeric elements are primarily for Sensing in Air but they also do work in a wet polar liquid environment, water, biological tissue and ionic liquid environment. If they are bent, flexed or squeezed, they generate 2-4 millivolts. They can also be used as actuators in Air or in a wet polar liquid environment, water, biological tissue and ionic liquid environment. In this mode the tip motion in a cantilever mode is about 3-5 millimeters per Volt. The sensing/transduction response is highly linear with respect to dynamic disturbances exerted to them, whether bending/flexing or squeezing them under a normal pressure or load.  Typical dimensions are (approximately) 1cmx4cmx0.2-0.3mm

                               2)     Polymeric Actuator / Sensor / Transducer           

 These actuator/ sensor/transducer polymeric elements are primarily for Actuation in Air but they also do work in a wet polar liquid environment, water, biological tissue and ionic liquid environment.  If a voltage of 2-4 volts is applied to them, they will draw a maximum current of about 150 mA and will have a tip motion in a cantilever mode of 10-20 millimeters. These actuators weighs about 0.1 gm and exert a maximum tip force (blocking force in a cantilever mode) of about 4 gmf. They can also respond to various dynamic voltage signals such as sinusoidal, square wave, triangular wave, saw tooth wave, etc.   If they are bent, flexed or squeezed under normal pressure, they generate 2-4 millivolts. In a moist environment or in water this element can also actuate and sense in a much more enhanced and spectacular manner. Their band-width in actuation and sensing is in the KHz regimes.  Typical dimensions are (approximately) 1cmx4cmx0.2-0.3mm. These actuator/sensor/transducer elements are made from Perfluorinated polymers and come ready to use for any kind of bending/ flexing/ transduction actuation as well as vibration/motion sensing or structural dynamics or health monitoring testing and application. The force density of these actuators are more than 40gmf/gm of actuator weight in a cantilever mode. 

    

        

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Assortment of Bending & Contractile Polymeric Artificial Muscles  US$1498.   click here to order,   
 
The assortment package includes: Six (6) different samples of Ionic Polymeric Metal Composite (IPMCs) artificial muscles of various thickness (1cmx4cmx0.2-0.3mm) and plating (Gold or Platinum) and Two different fiber bundles of contractile polymeric artificial muscles. These polymeric Artificial muscles are primarily for Actuation in Air but they also do work in a wet polar liquid environment, water, biological tissue and ionic liquid environment.  Typically, the bending/flexing artificial muscles in a cantilever mode have a tip motion of more than 10 millimeters per volt while drawing a maximum current of about 150 mA. These bending/flexing muscles can also respond to various dynamic voltage signals such as sinusoidal, square wave, triangular wave, saw tooth wave.   If they are bent, flexed or squeezed under a normal pressure, they generate a few millivolts (2-4 mv for a 1cmx4cmx0.2-0.3mm muscle strip). In a moist environment or in water these elements can also actuate and sense in a much more enhanced and spectacular manner. Their band-width in actuation and sensing is in the KHz regimes. 
Typically, the linear contractile polymeric artificial muscles included in this assortment are in the form of fiber bundles of ionically active PAN fibers.  They typically contract more than 100% (100% linear strain) in linear actuation mode.   
 
This package Also Comes With A CD ROM: A Collection of  Exciting Video clips of Polymeric Artificial Muscles In Action And a Variable Voltage / Frequency Power Supply  and Dynamic Signal Generator.  

    

     

 

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Two Flapping Pairs of Wings System with a Wing Span of About 20 cm Operating with a Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Signal Generator US$1798,   click here
Environmental Robots, Inc. is pleased to announce an exciting new product comprising of a pair flapping wings suitable for micro UAV's (please see the flapping wings videos on ERI main web page) and other flapping wings or solid state aircraft systems equipped with a dynamic voltage frequency signal generator for a price of  US$1798,   click here to order
 
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Other wing span dimensions are available on request. Please let us know what dimension wing span you wish to have from nano to micro to macro sizes. Contact:  shah@environmental-robots.com

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Assortment of Bending & Contractile Polymeric Artificial-MicroMuscles    
Environmental Robots, Inc. is pleased to announce an exciting new product comprising of 8 tiny little micro-muscles (in a few hundreds of microns range) in an assortment  for a price of  US$1498,   click here to order..

The assortment package includes: eight (8) different samples of Ionic Polymeric Metal Composite (IPMCs) artificial micro-muscles of a thickness of 20-30  microns and lengths of a few mm and two packages of micro-fiber bundle of PAN contractile polymeric artificial muscles of 10 micron in diameter per micro-fibrils that exhibit over 400% contraction in H+ solutions of 1 Normal or an electrochemical micro-cell. The bending and flexing polymeric artificial micro-muscles which are also micro-sensors and micro-transducers are primarily for Actuation in Air but they also do work in a wet polar liquid environment, water, biological tissue and ionic liquid environment.  Typically, the bending/flexing artificial muscles in a cantilever mode have a tip motion of about 100's of microns per millivolt. These bending/flexing micro-muscles can also respond to various dynamic voltage signals such as sinusoidal, square wave, triangular wave, saw tooth wave in a linear manner under robotic supervisory control.   If they are bent, flexed or squeezed, they generate a few microvolts. These are exciting micro-muscles for scientists and engineers dealing with MEMS, NEMS, nano-bio or biomedical research.

 

PAN elongation behavior explained by the Osmotic behavior and PAN fibers in different states. Top-left: neutral state; Top-right: under alkaline solutions.  Therefore, if there is pure water in contact with alkaline PAN, there will be an Osmotic pressure driven water in-flux. Bottom-left: oxidized PANs (prior to activation); bottom-middle: at low pH contracted PAN (1N HCl); bottom-right; at high pH expanded PAN (1N LiOH).  

    

 

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Fibrous Contractile Artificial Muscle Package: US$1485
This package includes an assortment of 4 fibrous chemically contractile (over 100% linear strain) fiber bundles of 5, 10, 15 and 20 polyacrylonitile (PAN) fibers + 4 fibrous electrochemically contractile (over 20% linear strain) PAN fiber bundles of 5, 10, 15 and 20 fibers interlaced with graphite fibers + a dynamic variable voltage/frequency and dynamic voltage-frequency signal generator.  click here to order

      

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Deluxe Fibrous Contractile Artificial Muscle Package:  US$1685 (a savings of $100 US)
This package includes the state of the art Book on Polymeric Artificial Muscles + an assortment of 4 fibrous chemically contractile (over 100% linear strain) fiber bundles of 5, 10, 15 and 20 polyacrylonitile (PAN) fibers + 4 fibrous electrochemically contractile (over 20% linear strain) PAN fiber bundles of 5, 10, 15 and 20 fibers interlaced with graphite fibers + a dynamic variable voltage/frequency and dynamic voltage-frequency signal generator.. 
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ERI Laminated Sheet Batteries (IPMCs as Energy Harvesters): Contact ERI for Price
These sheet batteries are made with ionic polymer metal composites (IPMC) and are self-powered by harvesting energy from random dynamic motion of their environment and do not need to be ever recharged. They come in sheets of different dimensions and electrical power output with electrodes attached to them ready to use. Customers interested in this product please let us know the desired dimensions and power output and we will quote you a price and delivery time line for your desired product.  Jamie@environmental-robots.com

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ERI Joints and Muscles Power Augmentation Systems: Contact ERI for Price
These power augmentation systems which will be either free-standing or embedded in attires, jackets, coats, pants, sleeves or boots are designed and fabricated for people with joint and muscle power deficiencies and disabilities such as paraplegics, quadriplegics, elderly and the disabled people. They will enable the user to convert a very small force or energy to many orders  of magnitude (typically 4 orders of magnitude) greater force and energy to perform tasks that they are not normally equipped to perform. Customers interested in this product please let us know the desired application or attire and we will quote you a price and delivery time line for the integrated system.
 Jamie@environmental-robots.com

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Custom Made Special Order of Polymeric Artificial Muscles 
 
Tell us what types of artificial muscle configurations or system you wish to   have (size, shape, function, voltage requirement, range of motion, range of forces, frequency requirement, etc.) and any desired systems integration and we will quote you a price and a time- line to deliver according to your specifications.  Customers with specific R&D requirements should contact ERI. Note that ERI has capabilities to meet your needs. 
  
 
 
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The World's First Comprehensive Book on 
Polymeric Artificial Muscles Is Described Below:

Books, Proceedings, Videos & Technical Information 

New Book on Artificial Muscles

by the Prestigious Publisher:

Taylor & Francis Group (Chapman & Hall/CRC)

Artificial Muscles

 Applications of Advanced Polymeric Nanocomposites

Mohsen Shahinpoor, Kwang J. Kim and Mehran Mojarrad

Catalog No. C7133, ISBN:978-1-58488-713-3 @$99.95

to order please email: orders@Taylorandfrancis.com

 

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 Book Bundle Package: US$759.00

The Book Bundle Package Comes With A CD ROM Containing:

A Comprehensive Power Point Presentation of the State of the Art On Ionic Polymeric Muscles As Well AS A Collection of  Exciting Video Clips of Polymeric  Artificial Muscles In Action.
+ It Also Comes With: A Package Containing Two Samples of Bending, Flexing and Contractile Artificial Muscles and  A Variable Voltage / Frequency Power Supply and Dynamic Signal Generator  As Described Above. This Book/Muscle/Driver Bundle will  enable the new researchers in this exciting field of research to have a comprehensive 462 pages of references, scientific and engineering experimental information, modeling and simulation and technical data, videos of artificial muscles in action, actual samples of ionic polymeric artificial muscles to experiment with and a A Variable Voltage / Frequency Power Supply and Dynamic Signal Generator to actuate the artificial muscles samples included in the package. 
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Intelligent Robotic Systems: Modeling & Simulation

ERI Press,  US $88.  click here to order
Professor Mohsen  Shahinpoor

Artificial Muscles Research Institute (AMRI),
 School of Engineering & School of Medicine

Division of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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* Enjoy this Collection of 53 Exciting Videos of Polymeric  Arificial Muscles, (CD ROM). See the description of the Videos on this CD ROM & see a number of illustrative videos on Artificial Muscles Click here for more info.  In order to purchase  US$59.  click here to order


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* Proceedings of the 2002 First World Congress on Biomimetics & Artificial Muscle (CD ROM)  Contains Plenary, Keynote Presentations & the selected technical Papers Presented at the Congress. click here, to order  US$49.
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* Proceedings of the 2004 Second World Congress on Biomimetics & Artificial Muscle and Nano-Bio (CD ROM) Proceedings Contains Plenary, Keynote Presentations & the selected technical Papers Presented at the Congress. click here, to order  US$49.
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* The Proceedings of the First & Second World Congress on Biomimetics & Artificial Muscle (2 CD-ROMs) Proceedings Contains Plenary, Keynote Presentations & the selected technical Papers Presented at the Congress. click here, to order  US$79.
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