Early Pneumatic, Fluidic and Inflatable Robots

This page will contain a timeline showing Early Pneumatic, Fluidic and Inflatable Robots.

For the moment, it is more a list of what is going to be placed in this blog. If image is clickable, then a blog post exists for it. Check out the updates page for recent posts.

Pneumatic Robots
 
 1957-8 – Joe McKibben "Artificial Muscle"
 Early Pneumatic Actuator Patents
 1979 – The "Simrit Finger" bending actuator
 1979 – Jim Whiting – Pneumatic android

 1983 – Bridgestone "Rubbertuator"
 1989 – Paynter – Arthrobots
 1996 – Autopod Hybrid Walker

  2004 – OctArm by Christopher Rahn et al
  2005 – OmniTread Snakebot OM-8
  2011 – Soft-robot Harvard -new
  2012 – Fraunhofer researchers – Bellows Spider Robot 
 
 
 
Pneumatic Dynamic Structures
 
 1969 – "Automat" – Mark Fisher & David Harrison
 1971 - "Dynamat"  - Mark Fisher & Simon Conolly
  2000 – Festo "Airtecture"
  2005 – Kas Oosterhuis "MuscleBody"
 2006 - Chico MacMurtrie / Amorphic Robot Works - various
 

 
Inflatable Personal Robots & Toys 
 
 Bourdon Tube Toys
  Remote-controlled Toys
 2011 – Remote-controlled Flying Fish.
 
 
Inflatable Art Machines
 
 1966 - "The Womaniser" by Bruce Lacey
 1967 – David Jacobs – Pneumatic Rubber Sound Sculpture
 1967 – Stephan von Huene – "Kaliedophonic Dog", "Rosebud Annunciator" (1969)
 1979 – Jim Whiting – Pneumatic Android Sculptures
 Jim Whiting – Pneumatic Grasshopper
  1980-1 – Mark Fisher – Teacher – "The Wall"
1992 – Kenji Yanobe – "Soul of Bubble King"
 1999 – David Santos - "Mr. Peanut" the Flying Android
  2001 – Tim Hawkinson – "Überorgen"
 2001-6 -  Theo Jansen – "Vaporum" Pneumatic Strandbeest
 2003 - Stelarc – Muscle Machine