Why aren’t Electro Active Polymers used to create exosuits or prosthetics instead of the traditional electric motors/actuators?
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What are you envisioning your prosthetics will use to move if not motors or actuators? From some brief googling, it appears that EAPs actually *are* being used to create artificial muscles, which would be useful indeed for exosuits and prosthetics.
As for why this isn’t done yet, I suspect that it is because cheaper/more reliable/more efficient/more effective to use traditional electric motors or actuators. They’re just easier, for the moment.
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