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Dr Iain Anderson | Innovations at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute
MP3, 8m48s, 8.1MB, first broadcast 19 April 2011
Faculty of Engineering Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute Dr Iain Anderson talks about the artificial muscle motor, created in the Biomimetics Laboratory, which is attracting overseas interest.
The innovation is a soft, bearing-free artificial muscle motor that can move a shaft in five different ways.
While other groups have worked on membrane devices where they can make a shaft tip-up, go side-to-side or back to front the University is the first to make the membrane turn the shaft.
The new design of flexible motors could in the future be used for microsurgery and because they are non-magnetic, can be used around MRI scanners.
Dr Anderson has also recently been named the Benjamin Meaker visiting Professor to the University of Bristol.
