1990 – Inflatable Robot Arm – Yoram Koren (Israeli/American)

A world’s-first robot that he built had inflatable arm linkages for deployment in hostile and confined spaces. The inflatable robot is a low-volume and low-weight alternative to rigid arms. The inflatable robot arms can achieve the required load-bearing capacity and rigidity through the appropriate selection of size and pressure. The links of the robot are …

1994 – Inflatable Robot – Patricia Dombiak (Ben-Horin) et al (Israeli)

A Six Degrees-of-Freedom parallel inflatable robot. Patricia Dombiak (Ben-Horin), Moshe Shoham and Gershon Grossman. Little is known about this robot. It was built as part of her Masters Thesis. P. Ben-Horin, M.Sc., "A Six Degrees-of-Freedom Parallel Robot with Three Planarly Actuated Links", 1994. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical engineering, The Kahn …