McKibben Muscle With Elastic Thread Embedded in Parallel Extending Range of Motion of Muscle-Driven Robots

R Kobayashi, S Tanaka, H Nabae… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The McKibben muscle, widely employed in antagonistic drive robots, exhibits approximately
20% contraction under pneumatic pressure but lacks crucial passive extensibility. Previous …

Stretchable Electrohydraulic Artificial Muscle for Full Motion Ranges in Musculoskeletal Antagonistic Joints

A Kazemipour, R Hinchet, RK Katzschmann - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Artificial muscles play a crucial role in musculoskeletal robotics and prosthetics to
approximate the force-generating functionality of biological muscle. However, current …