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BiomimeticProducts LLC

Electroactive Polymers, Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs), Soft Biomimetic Materials and Robots, Smart Materials, Artificial Muscles, , 

https://biomimeticproducts-llc.com

(207) 478-9383

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Look at these amazing videos of IPMCs:

Products:

Choose from our extensive list of fantastic products or describe to us what you would like. We look forward to serving you.

Watch Our Polymeric Muscles Videos

Please see the fantastic videos listed below of polymeric muscles in air and, in particular, the world's first pair of undulating wings in air:

  

  • ROBOTIC PRODUCTS 

  • Choose from the list of following products or describe what you would like to have by emailing:

  • moshahinpoor@gmail.com

  • shah@maine.edu

  • ERI allows 10% discount to universities and research organizations. In order to place an order and/or pay by credit card click
    on the link below:

  •  Ordering Page

  • 1-Deluxe Beginners Package Consisting of Four Samples of Polymeric Artificial Muscles (0.5cmx3cmx0.2-0.3mm) PLUS the Variable Voltage/Frequency Power Supply and Dynamic Signal Generator, Plus Muscle Samples Mounting Device with Alligator Electrodes
    Special offer with 10% discount for academic and research institutions
    Call (207) 478 9383 or email:

  • moshahinpoor@gmail.com

  • shah@maine.edu

  • 2-Variable Voltage/Frequency Power Supply and Dynamic Voltage Signal Generator, Plus Muscle Samples Mounting Device with Electrodes/
    Special offer with 10% discount for academic and research institutions
    Call (207) 478 9383 or email:

  • moshahinpoor@gmail.com

  • shah@maine.edu

  • 3-Deluxe Quadruple Actuator and Sensor Pack
    This pack contains four (4) samples of Polymeric Actuators/Sensors/Transducers/Energy Harvesters (1cmx4cmx0.2-0.3mm) plus A Variable Voltage/Frequency Power Supply and Dynamic Signal Generator as well as a sample mounting clamp (alligator clip) with electrodes
    Special offer 15% discount for academic and research institutions
    Call (207) 478 9383 or email:

  • moshahinpoor@gmail.com

  • shah@maine.edu

  • 4-Quadruple Actuator and Sensor Pack
    This pack contains 4 Polymeric Actuators/Sensors/ Transducers/Energy Harvesters Elements (1cmx4cmx0.20-0.3mm).
    Special offer with 15% discount for academic and research institutions
    Call (207) 478 9383 or email:

  • moshahinpoor@gmail.com

  • shah@maine.edu

  • 5-Assortment of Bending & Contractile Polymeric Artificial Muscles
    The assortment package includes: Eight (8) different samples of Ionic Polymeric Metal Composite (IPMCs) artificial muscles of various thickness (0.5cmx3cmx0.2-0.3mm) and plating (Gold or Platinum) and two different fiber bundles (20 fibers of 2000 strands of 10 micron microfibers each) of contractile polymeric (PAN) artificial muscles that contract and expand more than 100%. It also includes the dynamic voltage/frequency signal generator/power supply.
    Special offer with 10% discount for academic and research institutions.
    Call (207) 478 9383 or email: 

  • shah@maine.edu

  • moshahinpoor@gmail.com

  • 6-Flapping Pairs of Wings System with a Wing Span of About 10 cm Operating with a Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Signal Generator.
    Special offer with 10% discount for academic and research institutions
    Call (207) 478 9383 or email:

  • moshahinpoor@gmail.com

  • shah@maine.edu

  • 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.
    Special offer with 15% discount for academic and research institutions
    Call (207) 478 9383 or email:

  • moshahinpoor@gmail.com

  • shah@maine.edu

  • 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:

  • moshahinpoor@gmail.com

  • shah@maine.edu

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  • ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES

  • 7-Assortment of Bending Polymeric Artificial-Micro-Muscles

  • 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. 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 mms. 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, blood, 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 and biomedical research.

  • Special offer with 20% discount in general and additional 10% discount for academic and research institutions.
    8-Fibrous Contractile Artificial Muscle Package:
    This package includes an assortment of 2 fibrous chemically contractile (over 100% linear strain) fiber bundles of 6 and 20 polyacrylonitile (PAN) fibers + 2 fibrous electrochemically contractile (over 20% linear strain) PAN fiber bundles of 20 fibers interlaced with graphite fibers plus a dynamic variable voltage/frequency and dynamic voltage frequency signal generator. PAN Gels (muscles) are FDA approved for cervical dilation for pregnant women during delivery and are commercially available and knows as DILAPAN.

  • Special offer with 10% discount in general and additional 10% discount for academic and research institutions.

  • 9-ERI Laminated Sheet Batteries (IPMCs as Energy Harvesters): Contact ERI for Price

  • These sheet batteries are made with ionic polymer metal composites (IPMC), are self-powered by harvesting energy from random dynamic motion of their environment, and do not need to ever be 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 timeline for your desired product. 

  • 10-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 timeline for the integrated system.
    11-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 timeline to deliver according to your specifications. Customers with specific R&D requirements should contact ERI. Note that ERI has capabilities to meet your needs.

  • ERI also performs limited product development & services on shape memory alloys (SMA) actuators and artificial muscles, as well.

  • ABOUT

  • Environmental Robots Incorporated has many intellectual properties such as patents, patent licenses, and patent applications as listed below:

  • "System and device for correcting hyperopia, myopia and presbyopia," US Patent Office, Patent Pending, Serial No. 353319, Filed January 19, 2012, Patent Publication No. 20120116505 A1, May 10, 2012

  • "System and device for correcting hyperopia and presbyopia," US Patent Office, Patent No. 8, 123,803, Issued February 28, 2012
    "Synthetic Muscle-Based Multi-Powered Contact Lens," US Patent Office, Patent No. 7, 850,951, Issued December 14, 2010

  • "Surgical Correction of Ptosis by Polymeric Artificial Muscles," CIP for US patent, Patent No. 7,625,404, US Patent Office, Patent Publication No. 20100042146A1, February 18, 2010

  • "Surgical Correction of Ptosis by Polymeric Artificial Muscles," US Patent Office, Patent No. 7,625,404, Issued December 1, 2009

  • "Method of Fabricating a Dry Electro-Active Polymeric Synthetic Muscle," US Patent Office, Patent No. 7, 276, 090, Issued October 2, 2007

  • 'Shape Memory Alloy Temperature Sensor and Switch," US Patent Office, Patent No. 7, 220, 051, Issued May 22, 2007

  • "System and Device for Correcting Hyperopia and Presbyopia," US Patent Office, Patent Pending, Application Number 11/626,774, Submitted 1/24/2007

  • "Electrically-Controllable Multi-Fingered Resilient Heart Compression Devices," CIP to US Patent No. Number 6,464,655, US Patent Office, Patent No.7,198,594, Issued April 3, (2007)

  • "Surgical Correction of Human Eye Refractive Errors By Active Composite Artificial Muscle Implants," US Patent Office, Patent No. 7,090,696, CIP to US Patent No. 6,511,508B1, Issued August 15, 2006

  • "Wire Equipped with Electrically Bendable Distal Tip Made with Artificial Muscle," US Patent Office, Provisional Patent Pending, Provisional Application Number 6,005,205, submitted 11/10/2006

  • "Synthetic Muscle-Based Multi-Powered Active Contact Lens," US Patent Office, Serial No. 11/358,530, February (2006), Published Application

  • "Accommodating Zonular Mini-Bridge Implants," US Patent Office, United States Patent Number 7,060,09, Issued June 13, 2006

  • "Shape Memory Alloy Temperature Sensor-2: CIP," US Patent Office, United State Patent No. 6,837,620, Issued January 4, 2005

  • "Bioelectric Sensor and Switch System for Medical Imaging," US Patent Office, United States Patent No. 6,829,499, Issued December 7, 2004

  • "Synthetic Muscle-Based Diaphragm Pump Apparatuses," US Patent Office, United States Patent No. 6,682,500, Issued January 27, 2004

  • "Disk Drive Optical Switch," US Patent Office, United State Patent No. 6,678,434, Issued January 13, 2004.

  • "Shape Memory Alloy Temperature Sensor," US Patent Office, United State Patent No. 6,612,739, Issued September 2, 2003

  • "Implantable Micro-Pump Assembly," US Patent Office No. 6,589,198, Issued July 8, 2003.

  • "Surgical Correction of Human Eye Refractive Errors By Active Composite Artificial Muscle Implants," US Patent Office, No. 6,511,508 Issued January 28, 2003, also PCT Application No. 2323-00-PCT filed July (2001)

  • "Ionic Polymer Sensors and Actuators," US Patent Office, No. 6,475,639, Issued November 5, 2002.

  • "Electrically-Controllable Multi-Fingered Resilient Heart Compression Devices," US Patent Office, Number 6,464,655, Issued October 15, (2002)

  • "Smart Fiber Optic Magnetometer," US Patent Office, Number 6,433,543, Issued August 13, (2002)

  • "Metal Hydride Artificial Muscles," US Patent Office, United State Patent 6,405,532, Issued June 18, (2002)

  • "Dynamic Multi-Channel Fiber Optic Switch," US Patent Office, United State Patent, 6,381,382, Issued April 30, (2002)

  • "Dynamic Fiber Optic Switch with Artificial Muscles," US Patent Office, United States Patent 6,192,171, Issued February 20, (2001)

  • "Dynamic Fiber Optic Switch," US Patent Office, United States Patent 6,181,844, Issued January 30, (2001)

  • "Soft Actuators and Artificial Muscles," US Patent Office, United States Patent 6,109,852, Issued

  • "Synthetic Muscle-Based Multi-Powered Active Contact Lens," US Patent Office, Serial No. 11/358,530, February (2006), Published Application

 

Custom-Created Soft Robotics
World Leader In Manufacturing Of Electro Active Polymers EAPs, Artificial Muscles and IPMCs
The Home of Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs), Polymeric Nanocomposites and Biomimetic Soft Artificial Muscles - Biomimetic Soft Robotic Actuators, Sensors, Energy Harvesters, & Stimuli-Responsive Materials

Nanobots, Transducers, Artificial Muscles & More

The old Environmental Robots Inc. (ERI) of Bangor, ME, is now BiomimeticProducts LLC is a world leader when it comes to the manufacturing, research and development, and sales of ionic polymeric metal composites (IPMCs), ionic polymeric conductor nanocomposites, and artificial muscles. We also make custom-ordered IPMC robotic soft actuators, energy harvesters, and sensors for all academic, engineering, industrial, medical, and scientific applications. Our nanorobots, nanotransducers, energy harvesters, power augmenters, and polymeric, artificial muscles are bio-compatible for medical applications and are MRI-compatible because of quality platinum electrodes. Send us an email to

moshahinpoor@gmail.com

moshahinpoorbp@gmail.com

shah@environmental-robots.com

pshahinpoor@gmail.com

Jamileh12@msn.com  

shah@maine.edu 

 

Products:

Choose from our extensive list of fantastic products or describe to us what you would like. We look forward to serving you.

Watch Our Polymeric Muscles Videos

Please see the fantastic videos listed below of polymeric muscles in air and, in particular, the world's first pair of undulating wings in air:

  • K9-K12 Outreach for Artificial Muscles (Link Coming Soon)

Jelly Fish/Squid Videos

See the amazing ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMCs) products on our products page. ERI will work with any company, organization, or university towards product development for domestic, industrial, or medical applications. Artificial jelly fish/squid can be used for underwater energy harvesting, propulsion, biomimetic robotic swimming, and environmental data collection.

Looping and learning not to fall looping muscle in action 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKrlXDIY1do

 

MicroCatheter Videos

In the following videos, we use MicroCatheter/Guidewire distal tip benders/steerers in a saline solution to simulate blood for endovascular and cardiovascular surgery using fluoroscopy. See these videos to see them in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ2U3vFOWKE

 

Thermal maps of IPMNC internal transport dynamics 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EteMqoDMzwE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdxQnxCsNkWatch Them All!

Watch these videos and more on our:

 Youtube Channel (Mohsen Shahinpoor).

Interested in seeing other videos on artificial muscles? Visit the Home of the Artificial Muscle Research Initiative (AMRI)

Put robotics to work for you! (207) 478-9383

Academic & research institutions get an additional 10% discount!

 

Contact

Phone:  (207) 478-9383, (207) 356 5957

Hours of Operation
Monday - Friday: 9 AM - 5 PM

 

Address:
12118 Walnut Ct, Kansas City, Missouri 64145

Please note that on our webpage Environmental Robots is the old company that was replaced by BiomimeticProducts LLC. The old address is also replaced by the above new address.

 

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Additional Information on Biomimetic, Artificial Muscles and Nano-Bio:

 

 

Here is a summary of a congress which will be helpful to our customers. Let us know if you want a copy of any paper.

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Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles & Nano-Bio International Congress

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Engineers and Scientists will meet Medical Doctors and Surgeons in the spirit of the Congress to improve the quality of life and health on Earth.

     

    The BAMN Congress will address and discuss the following areas:

  • Smart/Intelligent Materials, Structures, and Systems

  • Biomimetics, Nano-Bio Engineering, and Artificial Muscles

  • Biologically-Inspired Engineering Systems (BIES), and Biologically Inspired Robotic Devices  and Systems (BIRDS) and Nano-Scale Biomedical Engineering

  • Advances in Social Biomimetic Robotics in Health and Medical Environment

  • Intelligent Soft Robotic Systems, Robotic Surgery, and Microsurgery

  • Providing Haptic Feedback by Soft Smart Materials to Surgeons during Robotics Surgery

  • Health Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Science

  • Advanced Nanocomposites and Electroactive Polymers

  • Heart Assist Systems, Left Ventricular Assist Systems (LVAS), Heart Failure Prevention

  • Bionic Vision and Ophthalmological Engineering

  • Neuro and Endovascular Surgical Tools and Medical Implants

  • Cell Mechanics, Tissue Manufacturing & Nano-Bio

  • Design, Development, and Implementation of Electroactive Polymers

  • Advances in Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs)

  • Advances in nanomaterials, CNTs, Graphene, Smart multifunctional materials

  • Advances in Dielectric elastomers (DEs)

  • Advances in Polyacrylonitrile Gels (PANs)

  • Advances in Conductive Polymers (CPs)

  • Advances in Artificial and Synthetic Sensors, Actuators, Energy Harvesters and Artificial Muscles​​​

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congress will invite world-class experts in these fields to deliver plenary and keynote presentations on all aspects of: 

· Smart/Intelligent Materials, Structures, and Systems

· Biomimetics, Nano-Bio Engineering, and Artificial Muscles

·  Biologically-Inspired Engineering Systems (BIES), and Biologically Inspired Robotic Devices and Systems (BIRDS) and Nano-Scale Biomedical Engineering

·  Intelligent Soft Robotic Systems, Robotic Surgery, and Microsurgery Providing Haptic Feedback by Soft Smart Materials to Surgeons during Robotics Surgery 

·  Health Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Science

·  Advanced Nanocomposites and Electroactive Polymers

·  Heart Assist Systems, Left Ventricular Assist Systems (LVAS), Heart Failure Prevention

·  Bionic Vision and Ophthalmological Engineering

·  Neuro and Endovascular Surgical Tools and Medical Implants

·  Cell Mechanics, Tissue Manufacturing & Nano-Bio

·  Design, Development, and Implementation of Electroactive Polymers

·  Advances in Ionic polymer-metal  composites (IPMCs)

·  Advances in nanomaterials, CNTs, Graphene, Smart multifunctional materials

·  Advances in Dielectric elastomers (DEs)

·  Advances in Polyacrylonitrile Gels (PANs)

·  Advances in Conductive Polymers (CPs)

·  Advances in Artificial and Synthetic Sensors, Actuators, Energy Harvesters and Artificial Muscles
 

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Plenary and Keynote Speakers: 

Our Plenary Speakers: There will be three plenary speakers who have been nominated by the Congress. These plenary speakers will open the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning general sessions.

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Our Keynote Speakers: There will be three keynote speakers who have been nominated by the Congress. These keynote speakers will open the Monday Tuesday and Wednesday general sessions.

 

Monday Morning: General Session
Plenary Presentation at 8:30-9:30 AM in Grand Ballroom
"New frontiers in treating cardiovascular diseases using biomimetic approach"

 

Dr. Piergiorgio Tozzi and Dr. Souhila Ait-Tigrine
Médecin Adjoint, Service de chirurgie cardiaque, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Bureau BH10/149
Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011 Lausanne
Piergiorgio.Tozzi@chuv.ch
http://www.chuv.ch/

 
Monday Afternoon: General Session
Keynote Presentation at 1:00 PM-1:25 PM in Grand Ballroom
“Recent developments of ionic gel actuators”

 

Dr. Kinji Asaka, Scientist, Inorganic Functional Material Research Institute,

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka 563-8577, Japan

E-mail: asaka-kinji@aist.go.jp

 

Tuesday Morning: General Session
Plenary Presentation: 8:30-9:30 AM in the Grand Ballroom
"Recent progress on ionic soft actuators and their future applications"

 

Dr. ILKWON OH, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),

Email : ikoh@kaist.ac.kr       

Homepage: http://active.kaist.ac.kr 

 

Tuesday Afternoon: General Session
Keynote Presentation at 1:00 PM-1:25 PM in Grand Ballroom
“PVC Gels: Perspectives”

 

Dr. Kwang J. (Jin) Kim, UNLV Distinguished Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), USA

Email: Kwang.Kim@unlv.edu

 

Wednesday Morning: General Session
Plenary Presentation at 8:30-9:30 AM in Grand Ballroom
"Ionic electroactive polymers: bending, linear and "dry" devices"

 

Professor Cedric Plesse,  Laboratories de Physicochimie des Polymères et des Interfaces (LPPI) - EA2528
Université de Cergy-Pontoise,  5031 Cergy-Pontoise in place of Professor Dr. Frédéric Vidal, Department of Chemistry, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France

Email: cedric.plesse@u-cergy.fr 

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Keynote Presentation at 9:30-10:20 AM followed by Q&A until 10:30 AM
in Grand Ballroom
Chemo-Electro-mechanical Model for Flexible Electrochemical Devices.
Advances in Conductive Polymers" with emphasis on the material parts for actuators or sensors including applications and modeling. 

 

Professor Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka

Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France 

Email: hyacinthe.randria@univ-paris-diderot.fr​​​​​​

The Spirit of the Congress

The congress will provide knowledge, presentations, exhibits, workshops and panel discussions on biomimetics, biologically inspired smart medical implants, smart materials, and artificial polymeric nanocomposites, actuators, energy-harvesters and sensors that behave biomimetically or similar to biological muscles and nano-biological phenomena. Engineers and Scientists will meet Medical Doctors and Surgeons in the spirit of the Congress. The congress will invite world-class experts in these fields to deliver plenary and keynote presentations on all aspects of: 

· Smart/Intelligent Materials, Structures, and Systems

· Biomimetics, Nano-Bio Engineering, and Artificial Muscles

·  Biologically-Inspired Engineering Systems (BIES), and Biologically Inspired Robotic Devices and Systems (BIRDS) and Nano-Scale Biomedical Engineering

·  Intelligent Soft Robotic Systems, Robotic Surgery, and Microsurgery Providing Haptic Feedback by Soft Smart Materials to Surgeons during Robotics Surgery 

·  Health Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Science

·  Advanced Nanocomposites and Electroactive Polymers

·  Heart Assist Systems, Left Ventricular Assist Systems (LVAS), Heart Failure Prevention

·  Bionic Vision and Ophthalmological Engineering

·  Neuro and Endovascular Surgical Tools and Medical Implants

·  Cell Mechanics, Tissue Manufacturing & Nano-Bio

·  Design, Development, and Implementation of Electroactive Polymers

·  Advances in Ionic polymer-metal  composites (IPMCs)

·  Advances in nanomaterials, CNTs, Graphene, Smart multifunctional materials

·  Advances in Dielectric elastomers (DEs)

·  Advances in Polyacrylonitrile Gels (PANs)

·  Advances in Conductive Polymers (CPs)

·  Advances in Artificial and Synthetic Sensors, Actuators, Energy Harvesters          & Artificial Muscles​​

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Monday Morning:

Welcoming Breakfast in Ballroom A

6:30 AM-8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

 

General Session

Session Chair: Mohsen Shahinpoor, Introductory Remarks

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Plenary Presentation at 8:30-9:20 AM followed by Q&A until 9:30 AM

in Grand Ballroom

"New frontiers in treating cardiovascular diseases using biomimetic approach"

 

Piergiorgio Tozzi and Souhila Ait-Tigrine
Médecin Adjoint, Service de chirurgie cardiaque, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Bureau BH10/149, Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011 Lausanne
emails: Piergiorgio.Tozzi@chuv.ch, Souhila.Ait-Tigrine@chuv.ch 
http://www.chuv.ch/

 

9:30-9:55 AM, followed by Q&A until 10.00 AM

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“Challenges of ionic electromechanically active polymer
actuators in medical applications.”
 

Alvo Aabloo

IMS Lab  http://www.ims.ut.ee
Institute of Technology, University of Tartu
Nooruse 1, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
Email: alvo.aabloo@ut.ee
 

10:00-10:25 AM, followed by Q&A until 10:30 AM

“Adaptation of the Unified Biomimetic Process (UBP): Application in the Development of a Solution for the Immobilization of Infantile Patients in Radiographic Examinations”

 

Giovanni de S. Malinoski, and Marco A. De Carvalho

Federal University of Technology – Paraná

Postgraduate Program in Mechanical and Materials Engineering

R. Dep. Heitor de A. Furtado, 5000–81280-340 – Curitiba PR – Brazil

Email: marcoaurelio@utfpr.edu.br

 

10:30-10:55 AM, followed by Q&A until 11:00 AM

“Designing Hybrid Hydrogel For Bio-Manufacturing.”

 

Bashir Khoda

Department of Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering

University of Maine

Orono, ME 04469, USA
Email: bashir.khoda@maine.edu
 

11:00-11:25 AM, followed by Q&A until 11:30 AM

“Haptic Feedback Sensors made with Soft Biomimetic Robotic Looped IPMCs.”

 

S. Ehsan Tabatabaie

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Maine

Orono, ME, USA 04416

Email: seyed.tabatabaie@maine.edu

 

11:30-11:55 AM, followed by Q&A until 12:00 Noon

“An Assistive Glove with a Spring Steel and Linear Actuator Driving Mechanism.”

 

Daniel Chizhik and Babak Hejrati

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Maine

Orono. Maine 04416, USA

Email: daniel.chizhik@maine.edu
 

12:00 Noon-1:00 PM

Hot Lunch Buffet will be served in Ballroom A

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Monday Afternoon: General Session
Keynote Presentation at 1:00 PM-1:25 PM followed by Q&A until 1:30 PM
in Grand Ballroom
“Recent developments of ionic gel actuators”
Kinji Asaka

Scientist, Inorganic Functional Material Research Institute,

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka 563-8577, Japan

E-mail: asaka-kinji@aist.go.jp

 

1:30 PM-1:55 PM, followed by Q&A until 2:00 PM

“Ellipse-like IPMC catheter, controlled by high electrical pulse stimulus method.”

 

Tetsuya Horiuchi and Kinji Asaka

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan

e-mail: tetsu-horiuchi@aist.go.jp

 

2:00-2:25 PM, followed by Q&A until 2:30 PM

“Hexagonal shape IPMC actuator for AIOL.”

 

Takushi Sugino and Kinji Asaka

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan

e-mail: tetsu-horiuchi@aist.go.jp

 

2:30-2:55 PM, followed by Q&A until 3:00 PM

“Biomedical Applications of Carbon-Based Ionic

Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Actuators.”

 

Takushi Sugino and Kinji Asaka

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan

e-mail: asaka-kinji@aist.go.jp

 

3:00-3:30 Afternoon Coffee and Cookies Break, Ballroom A

 

3:30-3:55 PM, followed by Q&A until 4:00 PM

“A total potential energy to study mechanics and electrochemistry of ionomers.”
 

Alain Boldini1, Lorenzo Bardella2, Maurizio Porfiri1,3,*

1-Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, 6 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA

2-Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Architettura, Territorio e Ambiente e di Matematica (DICATAM), Via Branze, 43-45, 25123 Brescia, Italy

3-Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, 6 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA

Email: ab7825@nyu.edu

 

4:00-4:25 PM, followed by Q&A until 4:30 PM

“Design Considerations in Tubular Soft Robotic Actuators and Sensors made with IPMCs.”

 

S. Ehsan Tabatabaie

Biomedical Engineering/Advanced Robotics (BEAR) Laboratories

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA 04416

Email: seyed.tabatabaie@maine.edu

 

4:30-4:55 PM, followed by Q&A until 5:00 PM

“A Wearable 3-Dimensional force measuring sensor for gait analysis applications.”
 

Md Shafiqur Rahman, Jacob Girgis, Joshua Girgis, Babak Hejrati

Department of Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering

University of Maine

Orono, Maine USA 04416
Email: md.s.rahman@maine.edu
 

Closing Remarks: Mo Shahinpoor

Monday Session ends at 5:10 PM

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Tuesday Morning:

Breakfast in Ballroom A

6:30 AM-8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

 

General Session

Session Chair: Mohsen Shahinpoor, Introductory Remarks

Plenary Presentation: 9:00-9:50 AM followed by Q&A until (10.00 AM
in the Grand Ballroom
"Recent progress on ionic soft actuators and their future applications"

 

Ilkwon Oh, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Email: ikoh@kaist.ac.kr 

Homepage: http://active.kaist.ac.kr 

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10:00-10:25 AM, followed by Q&A until 10:30 AM

“Electrochemical actuators.”

 

Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka

School Address & Affiliations: 

Université de Paris, ITODYS, UMR 7086 CNRS,

15 rue J-A de Baïf, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France

Email: hyacinthe.randria@univ-paris-diderot.fr

 

10:30-10:55 AM, followed by Q&A until 11:00 AM

“Metal matrix piezoelectric composite for structural health monitoring sensor.”

 

Tetsuro Yanaseko

Faculty of Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Kogakuin University of Technology and Engineering, Kute, Japan

Email: yanaseko@cc.kogakuin.ac.jp
 

11:00-11:25 AM, followed by Q&A until 11:30 AM

“An Overview and Future Development of Robust and Smart Materials/Structures.”

 

Hiroshi Asanuma

1-33, Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan,

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan

Email: asanuma@faculty.chiba-u.jp

 

11:30-11:55 AM, followed by Q&A until 12:00 Noon

“Disaster Mitigation and Sustainable Engineering-Recent Progress and Future Direction.”

 

Hiroshi Asanuma

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University

1-33, Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan,

Email: asanuma@faculty.chiba-u.jp

 

12:00 Noon-1:00 PM

Hot Lunch Buffet will be served in Ballroom A

 
Tuesday Afternoon General Session:

Session Chair:  Babak Hejrati

General Session
Keynote Presentation at 1:00 PM-1:25 PM followed by Q&A until 1:30 PM
in Grand Ballroom
“PVC Gels: Perspectives”

 

Kwang J. (Jin) Kim, Ph.D., UNLV Distinguished Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), USA

Email: Kwang.Kim@unlv.edu

 

1:30 PM-1:55 PM, followed by Q&A until 2:00 PM

“Multimodal Sensing Capabilities of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites.”
 

Jacob Bloom, S. Ehsan Tabatabaie, M. Shahinpoor, Babak Hejrati

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Maine

Orono, Maine 04469  USA

Email: Jacob.bloom@maine.edu

 

2:00-2:25 PM, followed by Q&A until 2:30 PM

“Soft Robotics for Biomedical Applications-I.”

 

Soo Jin Adrian Koh and Lau Gih Keong

National University of Singapore, Singapore

emails: (adrian_koh@nus.edu.sg) and (mgklau@ntu.edu.sg)

 

2:30-2:55 PM, followed by Q&A until 3:00 PM

“Ferromagnetic Soft Robots.”

 

Xuanhe Zhao

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Email: 

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3:00-3:30 Afternoon Coffee and Cookies Break, Ballroom A

 

3:30-3:55 PM, followed by Q&A until 4:00 PM

“Strain sensors for diver health monitoring and gesture-based communication.”

 

Iain A. Anderson

Biomimetics Lab, Auckland Bioengineering Institute

Level 6, 70 Symonds Street

Auckland, New Zealand

Email: i.anderson@auckland.ac.nz

 

4:00-4:25 PM, followed by Q&A until 4:30 PM

 “Designing Soft Fluidic Robots for Healthcare.”

 

Raye Yeow

Department of Biomedical Engineering

the National University of Singapore

Affiliated Principal Investigator with Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology and Advanced Robotics Center

 

4:30-4:55 PM, followed by Q&A until 5:00 PM

“Bio-inspired Soft Robots based on Various Smart Actuators.”

 

Jian Zhu

Department of Mechanical Engineering

National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

Closing remarks: Mo Shahinpoor

Tuesday Session ends at 5:00 PM

 

Tuesday Night Banquet

6:30 PM-9:30 PM: Dinner Banquet/Reception in Ballroom A

 

Plated Hot Dinner:

Choices:

1-Sweet Bourbon Steak Tips

2-Grilled Salmon

 

Wednesday Morning: 

Breakfast in Ballroom A 

6:30 AM-8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

 

General Session

Session Chair: Mohsen Shahinpoor, Introductory Remarks

 

8:30-9:20 AM, followed by Q&A until 9:30 AM

1-Plenary Presentation in Grand Ballroom A

“Ionic electroactive polymers: bending, linear and "dry" devices.”

 

Cedric Plesse

Laboratories de Physicochimie des Polymères et des Interfaces (LPPI) - EA2528, Université de Cergy-Pontoise

5031 Cergy-Pontoise

in place of Professor Dr. Frédéric Vidal,

Department of Chemistry, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France

email: cedric.plesse@u-cergy.fr 

Katlin Rohtlaid(1), Frederic Braz Ribeiro(1) , Tran Minh Giao Nguyen(1), Caroline Soyer(2), John DW Madden(3), Eric Cattan(2), Frederic Vidal(1), Cedric Plesse(1)

 

  1. Laboratoire de Physicochimie des Polymères et des Interfaces (LPPI) - EA2528, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 5 mail Gay Lussac, 95031 Cergy-Pontoise, France

  2. Univ. Polytechnique des Hauts de France, CNRS, Univ. Lille, Yncrea, Centrale Lille, UMR 8520 - IEMN, DOAE, F-59313 Valenciennes, France

  3. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Advanced Materials & Process Engineering Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

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​2-Special Keynote Presentation in Grand Ballroom A

 

9:30-10:20 AM, followed by Q&A until 10.30 AM

“Chemo-Electro-mechanical Model for Flexible Electrochemical Devices.”
 

Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka

School Address & Affiliations: 

Université de Paris, ITODYS, UMR 7086 CNRS,

15 rue J-A de Baïf, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France

Email: hyacinthe.randria@univ-paris-diderot.fr

 

10:30-11:20 AM, followed by Q&A until 11:30 AM

“IPMCs as Haptic Feedback/Tactile Sensors and Dexterous Manipulators for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery.”

 

Mohsen Shahinpoor

Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Biomedical

Science and Engineering

The University of Maine\Orono, ME, USA

Email: 

 

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