Artimus Robotics

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.

Products

• E-Series Expanding HASEL Actuators

Facts

• Website: https://www.artimusrobotics.com
• HQ: Boulder, CO, United States
• Founded: 2018
• Segment: actuation and motion control

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× mechanical output New actuators fully encapsulated for safer interaction and easier integration into robotic systems Company publicly seeks select partners to evaluate and integrate te…
• 2026-02-17 - Product Launch - Artimus Robotics launches next-generation HASEL actuators - Artimus said the new contracting HASEL actuators deliver more than twice the mechanical output of the prior generation. The actuators are fully encapsulated for safer interaction and easier integration into robotic systems. The company sought partners to eval…
• 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 program to study HASEL actuators as the primary actuation mechanism in human-scale robotic systems. The project focused on integrating HASEL actuato…

Team

• Eric Acome, PhD - CEO, Cofounder
• Nick Kellaris, PhD - CRO, Cofounder

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.