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From: frank@milo.berkeley.edu (Frank Tendick)
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Subject: Re: Artificial Muscle Actuators
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In article <30737@hydra.gatech.EDU> jt34@prism.gatech.EDU (THOMPSON,JOHN C) writes:
>Does anyone know of a source for muscular type actuators?
>How about research references on the subject? Thanks

There is an excellent chapter by Blake Hannaford and Jack Winters in
Multiple Muscle Systems: Biomechanics and Movement Organization,
J.M. Winters and S.L.-Y. Woo, eds., 1990 Springer-Verlag.  They
compare and contrast the properties of muscle with a variety of other
actuators.  They also describe some commercially available actuators
which are designed to be "muscle-like."  As pointed out by Doug Wilkie,
however, there is no artificial actuator which has the unusual
characteristic of muscle that it is also good to eat! :-)

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