WorldWide ElectroActive Polymers EAP ( Artificial Muscles ) Newsletter
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1 FROM THE EDITOR Yoseph Bar-Cohen, [email protected] This issue reports the latest progress in the fields of Electroactive Polymers (EAP) and biomimetics. Some of the latest development at the various lab worldwide is reported in this issue. From the perspective of Biomimetics, it is interesting to note that the SPIE’s Conference on Biomimetics has continued to grow in terms of the number of papers that are presented. In the 2015 SPIE Conf. on Biomimetics, the San Diego Zoo presented a Caiman Lizards, also known as a genus Dracaena. The Caiman lizards are found in South America in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Brazil. The male (see Figure 1).
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