E-Series Expanding HASEL Actuators Context

Market context

E-Series Expanding HASEL actuators are soft electrohydraulic components that provide compact linear pushing motion for compliant mechanisms, haptics and soft-robotics experiments.

  • Target environment: Research labs, haptics prototypes, soft grippers, compliant mechanisms and compact robotic assemblies.
  • Workflow context: Integrated as actuator components where deformable motion is preferable to rigid motor, pneumatic or hydraulic systems.
  • Customer context: Soft-robotics researchers, haptics developers, end-effector teams and hardware builders evaluating artificial-muscle actuation.
  • Deployment model: Catalog actuator families and partner evaluation rather than complete robot sales.
  • Commercial maturity: Early commercial component family with public model-level force, stroke, size and weight options.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on drive electronics, voltage handling, durability, control integration, stroke/force fit and manufacturability at the required scale.
  • Market position: Soft-actuation component lane for compliant robotics.
  • Adjacent products: Adjacent to haptics, dexterous hands, soft grippers, wearable robotics and artificial-muscle research.

Audience

Robot OEMs

Workflow

Integrated as actuator components where deformable motion is preferable to rigid motor, pneumatic or hydraulic systems.

Deployment environment

Research labs, haptics prototypes, soft grippers, compliant mechanisms and compact robotic assemblies.

Specifications

  • Applications: Haptics, soft robotics and compliant automation mechanisms
  • materials and robotics supply chain: Thin plastic films and liquids for soft actuator construction
  • Control: Controllable with an analog voltage signal

Family specifications

  • E-1010-01-01 - Weight: 0.2 g - Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 0.3 mm - Free Stroke: 0.26 mm - Blocking Force: 4.5 N
  • E-0015-04-10 - Weight: 38 g - Dimensions: 38 mm diameter x 10 mm - Free Stroke: 2.8 mm - Blocking Force: 25 N
  • E-0025-04-15 - Weight: 88 g - Dimensions: 54 mm diameter x 20 mm - Free Stroke: 7 mm - Blocking Force: 40 N

Tags

  • Peer Group: Robot Actuator, Soft Actuators
  • Workflow: End-effector manipulation
  • Capability: Robotic grasping
  • Stack Layer: Actuation layer

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