The development of actuating wearable textiles is of great interest in fields as 30haptics or assistive devices. Electroactive conducting polymer-based actuatorsare being merged with yarns and fabrics to provide them with mechanicalactuation. One way to speed up the development of such mechanically activewearable textiles is the development of conducting polymer-based actuators thatcan be incorporated into textile processing. This imposes extra requirements tothe actuators such as the required size, improved mechanical andelectrochemical stability, actuation in air or the use of low/non-hazardousmaterials. Tape yarn actuators composed of conducting polymer/ionicallyconducting layer/conducting polymer are being developed and optimized to thataim. The latest developments on integrating such EAP tape yarns in wovenfabrics will be presented.