Soft Robotics

Here's some thing I came accross tonight. Perhaps I can use some thing like this instead of servo's for muscles.

Unfortunately it still uses air. Maybe a normal air muscle would be better to replace a servo.

What about using Hydrogen muscle?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427305.600-hydrogen-muscle-silences-the-domestic-robot.html

Hi, and thank you for the replies. I considered air muscles but they are to big for fingers and need an air compressor to operate them. I also considered muscle wire but that get hot and I don’t want any thing hot around silicon because it will burn and smell bad. I was considering hydraulics for upper arms, legs, and neck. For the fingers I’m looking for a polymer that contracts when an electrical current is applied. Or some thing of that nature to the tune of ¼ inch long even if it doesn’t lift that much it could be combined with other strands and lift more.

The other thing is to place the actuators in the forearm:

and connect the fingers through wires.

I have to admit that video is very interesting the jamming technology.
Wish i have one to test it out.
Learn something new every day.