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Modular Packages
of
3, 6, 12, 18 and more on Artificial
Muscle Science Kit TM
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Deluxe
Bending/Flexing
Artificial Muscle Science KitTM
Package
US$167 (a
savings of $40)
Includes: Bending/Flexing Artificial Muscles Science
Kit ($98) plus A Variable Voltage/Frequency Power
Supply and Dynamic Signal Generator ($69)
In order to bring the technology of electroactive polymers, in particular, ionic polymer metal composites
(IPMC’s) to the attention of our Younger
Curious Minds, Researchers, High
School Teachers and Students (grades 9-12, K12), College Students, Engineers and Scientists, ERI has developed a low cost
“ Bending/Flexing Artificial Muscle Science Kit TM”
which enables the users to briefly learn about and make ionic polymeric metal composite artificial muscles
from raw materials and be able to test them as biomimetic distributed nano-sensors,
nano-transducers, nano-actuators and artificial muscles in a science project.
The package also includes two samples of ionic polymeric muscles ready to
be tested and experimented with. To
order
this Deluxe Science Kit,
click
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you are a science teacher and want to order multiple science kits for
your class projects
at tremendous discount, please contact:
shah@environmental-robots.com
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Modular Packages
of
3, 6, 12, 18 and more on Artificial
Muscle Science Kit TM
- are available at a tremendous discount
price.
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Deluxe
Quadruple Actuator and Sensor Pack US$558
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.
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order
this package,
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Quadruple
Actuator and Sensor Pack US$488,
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.
To
order,
click
here
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- Complimentary Artificial Muscle
Samples (IPMC)
Environmental Robots, Inc., is providing complimentary samples of Ionic Polymeric Metal Composite
(IPMC) as distributed Biomimetics Nano Sensors, Nano Actuators and Artificial Muscles.
The samples are by 0.5cmx2cmx0.2-0.3mm. If you
wish to receive these complimentary samples, Please contact:
contact:
shah@environmental-robots.com
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- Assortment of Bending & Contractile Polymeric Artificial
Muscles
US$598.
click
here to order,
The assortment package includes: Six (6) different samples of Ionic
Polymeric Metal Composite (IPMCs) artificial muscles of various
thicknesses (1cmx4cmx0.2-0.3mm) and platings (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.
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- 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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Flapping Pair 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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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.
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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$1585
(a savings of $98US)
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..
click
here to order
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ERI Laminated Sheet Batteries: 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.
shah@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.
shah@environmental-robots.com
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- 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$248.00
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.
click
here to order.
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Artificial Muscles and Active Nano-Composites
Research & Development Initiation Program (AMANCRDIP)
Starting at $76K,
click
here to order.
This research & development initiation
program is intended for Scientists and University Professors wishing to
start a new research thrust for their careers as well as for their
Students, Graduate Education and Research Funding and High Technology Project
and Product Development in the areas of distributed nano sensors, nano
actuators, nano transducers, nano composites, artificial muscles and nano
muscles
The AMANCRDIP Program Comes With the following items:
1-Four CD ROM
Containing: A Comprehensive Power Point Presentation of the State of the Art On Ionic
Polymeric Artificial Muscles Containing A Collection of
36
Exciting
Video Clips of Polymeric
Artificial Muscles In Action;
Two CD Proceedings of First and Second International Congresses on
Biomimeitcs, Artificial Muscles and Nano-Bio and A CD containing a
collection of Technical Papers on Ionic Polymeric Artificial Muscles
2-A Package Containing
Twenty Samples of Ionic Polymeric Metal Nano Composites As Distributed Nano
Sensors and Nano Actuators for Bending, Flexing, Twisting, Twirling and
Compression Applications
3-Four
Fiber Bundles of Chemically or Electrochemically Contractile/Exansive Artificial Muscles
4-Four Variable Voltage / Frequency Power Supply and Dynamic Signal Generators
5-Four
Artificial Muscles Books as described above to enable the new
researchers in this exciting field of research to have a comprehensive 446 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.
6-Two
Power Augmentation Systems as described above.
7-Two
Pairs of Flapping Wing Muscles As Described Above
8-Three
Months of Consultation With ERI nano-composites experts and research
initiation on any one of the following topics or other topics of
interest to customers:
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- Soft small sensors and actuators for
ophthalmological problems
and diseases
- Combined capacitive and resistive
sensors (replacing the piezoelectric
and piezoresistive sensors with one)
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Micro and nano-robotic grippers & systems
- Numerous other medical, industrial and entertainment (Toy)
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applications, creating soft facial expressions
- Data suit, attire, gloves, shoes
equipped with soft IPMC sensors
for military, industrial and medical application
- Biologically-Inspired Engineering
Systems and Biolgically Inspired
Robotic Devices and systems (BIRDS)
- Electronics Braille alphabet for the
blind (active dots)
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Artificial eyelids (Ptosis, eyelid droop syndrome)
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Artificial Epiglottis (Artificial Larynx)
- Heart Assist Devices & Systems
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Heart Muscle Assist Devices
- Artificial Organs
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Artificial Vocal Cords, Artificial Tongue
- Soft Flow Meter, Peristaltic Pumps, Many More
- Diving Suit and Wristband for Navy Seals
- Artificial Diaphragm
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MEMS and NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems) Biomedical
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Applications
- Micro-Surgical Applications
- Muscle Atrophy or Dystrophy
Devices, Ptosis
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Continuous Passive Motion Devices (CPM)
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Biomimetic devices - Artificial Fish, Artificial Insects, Crawling
Robots,
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Flying Robots, Artificial Snakes
- Virtual Reality and
Human-Computer Interfacing Devices,
- Haptic Interfaces
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Biologically-Inspired Structures and Systems
- Many More
Starting at $76K, click
here to order.
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Intelligent
Robotic Systems: Modeling & Simulation
ERI Press, 1994.
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 36 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$39. 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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