Introduction to ionic polymers, intelligent gels and artificial muscles -- Ionic polymer-metal nano-composites (IPMNC's) artificial muscles: fundamentals -- Manufacturing techniques for ionic polymer-metal nano-composite (IMPMN's) artificial muscles -- Ionic polyacrylonitrile (PAN) chemo-electro mechanical artificial muscles/nano muscles -- PAMPS gel artificial muscles -- Modeling and simulation for ionic polymer-metal nano-composites (IPMNC's) as biomimetic distributed nano-sensors, nano-actuators, nano-transducers and artificial muscles -- Sensing, transduction, feedback control and robotic applications of artificial muscles -- Conductive polymers as artificial muscles -- Medical and industrial applications of ionic polymer-metal nano-composites.