Facts

• Segment: Actuation
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2018
• Website: https://www.artimusrobotics.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Artimus Robotics develops soft robotic actuators based on electrohydraulic technology. Its HASEL actuator work is aimed at giving robots lightweight, compliant and muscle-like motion for grippers, wearable systems, haptics and machines that need safer, more flexible physical interaction.

Market context

Artimus adds a soft-actuation lane to the robotics supply chain. Its HASEL technology gives builders an alternative to rigid motors, pneumatic muscles and hydraulic cylinders when they need lightweight, quiet, deformable motion. Artimus Robotics supplies HASEL soft actuators and evaluation hardware for robot builders, automation teams, haptics developers and research labs working on compliant motion.

Products

• E-Series Expanding HASEL Actuators

Facts

• Website: https://www.artimusrobotics.com
• HQ: Boulder, CO, United States
• Founded: 2018
• Segment: Actuation

Soft electric actuation for compliant robots

Artimus Robotics is a component supplier built around HASEL artificial muscle actuators, a soft electrohydraulic motion technology for compliant mechanisms, haptics and robotics R&D.

• Target environment: Research labs, haptics teams, robot-hand developers, compliant mechanism programs and automation teams testing alternatives to rigid motors or pneumatic motion.
• Deployment model: Component supply through standard actuator families, evaluation kits and custom soft-actuator development.
• Customer context: Robot builders, research labs, haptics developers and hardware teams that need compact compliant motion rather than a full robot platform.
• Workflow context: Soft actuation, haptics, dexterous manipulation research, compliant end-effectors, lightweight motion and artificial muscle development.
• Commercial maturity: Early commercial component supplier. Public product pages and announcements support evaluation hardware and partner-seeking rather than mature high-volume robot supply.
• Market position: Differentiated soft-actuation supplier in a market still dominated by electric motors, pneumatics and rigid transmissions.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on actuator durability, drive electronics, voltage handling, control integration, manufacturability and evidence in deployed robot systems.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent to dexterous hands, haptics, soft grippers, wearable robotics, underwater actuation and research manipulation platforms.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-02-18 - Product Launch - Artimus Robotics announces next-generation artificial muscle actuators and partner evaluation initiative - Launched upgraded generation of HASEL artificial muscle actuators with >2× mechani…
• 2020-12-04 - Award - U.S. Army awards Artimus Robotics STTR Phase I contract for HASEL actuator study - Artimus Robotics says the U.S. Army awarded it $166,000 through the Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I prog…

Team

• Eric Acome, PhD - CEO, Cofounder
• Nick Kellaris, PhD - CRO, Cofounder
• Shane Mitchell, PhD - CTO, Cofounder

Relationships

• United States Army - STTR Phase I - U.S. Army STTR Phase I award ($166,000) to Artimus Robotics for HASEL actuator study in human-scale robotic systems (Dec 2020).
• University of Colorado Boulder - STTR research partner - Artimus conducted STTR work with CU Boulder Bio-Inspired Perception and Robotics Laboratory on HASEL actuation and control.

Context tags

• Artificial muscle actuator supplier - Peer Group - Artimus positions HASEL products as artificial muscle actuator technology.
• Artificial muscle actuation - Workflow - Artimus enables artificial muscle actuation for robots.
• Soft actuator component supplier - Stack Layer - Artimus supplies HASEL soft actuator components for robotics and haptics.
• Actuator component supplier - Stack Layer - Artimus supplies actuator components for robotic systems.
• Robotics hardware supply chain - Customer Environment - Artimus supplies actuator hardware rather than complete robot platforms.
• Motion component supplier - Peer Group - Artimus supplies motion components.