2022 Project ActuatorX: Soft Electromagnetic Actuation RFP

Facebook seeks proposals that push the state-of-the-art in one or more of the following areas with respect to such soft electromagnetic actuators:

• Develop a novel actuator that achieves large force density and use it to develop device prototype(s) with applications in haptics.
• Develop novel materials or actuator architectures that improve the actuator performance (e.g., force density or efficiency) and prototype(s) demonstrating the proposed approach.
• Develop novel ways to manage heat generated by the actuator and prototype(s) demonstrating the proposed approach.

Funding: $250,000

Duration: no fixed limit 

Research Authority due date: 1.5.22