Progress in Biomimetic Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscles

Nature always gives us inspiration in all kind of technological ideas,engineering principles and momentous invents.Human realized the importance of enlightenment by Nature in developing new materials and technology more and more in the 20th century and the Bionics has been established.Bionics is a frontier field of sciences now.Muscles are the base of the movement for animals with many kinds of perfect properties.As the development of the robots and the demand of the intelligent mechanical system,artificial muscles come to be the focus of Bionics.Electroactive polymer actuator is lighter,softer,higher strain and quieter,which is the best candidate as biomimetic muscles,and also quite general denominated as Artificial Muscles.The reserach of electroactive polymer actuator in the last twenty years promotes the development of artificial muscles in a very fast speed.