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Next-generation anthropomorphous and zoomorphic robots, actuators, artificial muscles and skins, smart clothes, batteries that will re-use energy ... these are some of the applications of polymer devices and materials that researchers in artificial muscles have in common during this week in The congress that coordinates the professor of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Toribio Fernández and that is celebrated in La Manga.
This is the international congress of the European Society of Transducers, Actuators and Artificial Muscles of Electromechanically Active Polymers, EuroEAP 2017, which is celebrated today and tomorrow in La Manga.
In the same place, the annual meeting of the European network MICACT, belonging to the Marie Curie European Doctoral Training Network of excellence, is also held on Thursday, and the new doctors in polymer actuators and artificial muscles are formed.
The meeting is also attended by representatives of the European Commission to know the results obtained by each researcher.
The congress focuses on the application and use of plastics, both those used in our day-to-day and others with innovative properties, such as conducting electricity.
Among these materials are those that will be used in the robots of the future, capable of performing functions of charge and transformation of energy.
With these novel materials it will be possible to develop plastic sheets that will be used by these robots, "which will allow them to have tact," says Toribio Fernández.
These soft materials will allow the development of robots with the same shape and texture of animals and humans, so they will "go even further in movement and appearance than the current ones."
These 'robots of the 21st century' will have several applications, for example, their use in therapies with the elderly or with disabilities.
"They are materials with the same physical base as biological ones.
There are some that react with the passage of currents or whose skins work with chemical or electrochemical reactions ", affirms the professor of the UPCT.
Also of special importance in this congress the application of these new materials like intelligent dresses, able to generate electricity in the parts that undergo much movement and store it in transistors with biological characteristics for its later use.
In total there are thirteen experts from eleven different countries who will speak with their papers throughout the congress.
To these we must add almost one hundred oral presentations of research activities and more than fifty exhibitions of prototypes and posters, which round off a congress of international importance.
Source: UPCT
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