soft robotics and artificial muscles

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL), Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory, is working on technology, soft actuators made from elastomeric active materials.
They could implement in a variety of applications ranging from assistive wearable technologies targeted at biomedical rehabilitation or assistance with activities of daily living, bioinspired and biomimetic systems, to gripping and manipulating fragile objects, and adaptable locomotion.
Assistive soft robotic system prototypes that can be built with such actuators and are capable of delivering desired motion and force profiles for targeted applications in motion assistance and biomedical rehabilitation.