Bionic Arm With Muscle Emulation

Gugo writes "German based company FESTO has develop a bionic arm that uses muscle emulation,(video included) with a product called 'fluidic muscle.' It works like a normal animal-human muscle but moved by air inside. This new type of prosthetic offers rapid response, small size, simple assembly and ease of control. On their website they show the range of fluidic muscles with a car race simulator."

Comments

ah but have they got it balanced?

[Anonymous Coward]

ah they have this figured out but did they figure out how to fix the problem with balance? when robots' arms move one way their body goes the opposite, they jerk every time they move [the movement causes this] we humans balance ourselves so that any movement is counterbalanced by another so we don't "jerk"
fast movements cause the jerk not the jeriness of the motion its self:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-210519753 7348397814&q=japan+fembot&total=3&start=0&num=10&s o=0&type=search&plindex=0