Artificial Muscle, Inc., (AMI) a company that designs and builds actuators based on its patented electroactive polymer artificial muscle (EPAM™) technology announced today that it has been selected as a winner of the Red Herring 100 Global Award.

Red Herring 100 winners and finalists from North America, Europe and Asia of the last three years were eligible for this award. The Red Herring editorial team used a very competitive process to whittle down this pool of 1800 eligible promising companies to the 100 winners of this first-time award. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration.

“On behalf of all of the employees and customers of Artificial Muscle, we are pleased and honored to be selected as one of the top 100 start-ups worldwide for this award.” said Charlie Duncheon, Executive Vice President of Artificial Muscle, Inc. “It is especially significant for us to be chosen from such a large group of extremely high quality technology firms.”