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Symposium B-7
Soft Actuators and Related Energy-Conversion Materials

Organizers

Representative

Kinji ASAKA: The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Hidenori OKUZAKI: Yamanashi University

Co-Organizers

Ryo YOSHIDA: The University of Tokyo
Tetsu MITSUMATA: Yamagata Unviersity
Takahisa TAGUCHI: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Kunitomo KIKUCHI: Wakayama University
Kentaro TAKAGI: Nagoya University
Norihiro KAMAMICHI: Tokyo Denki University

Correspondence

Jun-ichi MAMIYA: DIC Corporation（junichi-mamiya@ma.dic.co.jp）

Scope

Soft actuators are devices based on polymer-based materials whose size or shape can change in response to various stimuli such as thermic, electric, light-, magneto, and chemical ones. Soft actuators have many advantages as compared to conventional actuators and are expected to many emerged applications such as various biomedical, MEMS, portable electronics, etc. This symposium will cover recent progress of research and development on materials, devices, control methods and applications of soft actuators. This symposium will also cover the research and development of those of related topics including mechanical sensor and energy harvesting using soft materials. This symposium will also cover current researches of actuators based on bio-materials as future perspectives of artificial muscle technology.