Description

This project will involve the design and fabrication of a tiny robotic hand (1 cm ×1 cm or even smaller) actuated with artificial muscles (cavatappi) used to increase the dexterity within the body for surgeons. The main idea is based on the exploitation of soft materials or artificial muscles to be intrinsically flexible and safe and enable high dexterity and selective stiffness variability. Such a system will be fully actuated using a hydraulically wearable glove consisting of syringes to generate internal pressurization in the artificial muscles, and in turn, actuation. Each syringe in the glove will allow to individually actuate each finger in the robotic hand.