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Agile and Energy-Efficient Jumping–Crawling Robot Through Rapid Transition of Locomotion and Enhanced Jumping Height Adjustment

IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics, 2022
A small-scale jumping–crawling robot expands the accessible region of a robot by selectively performing suitable locomotion type. However, the parallel elastic actuation for jumping, which amplifies a lightweight actuator's limited power, couples the ...
Soo-Hwan Chae, Sang-Min Baek, Jongeun Lee, Kyu-Jin Cho   +3 more
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An 88-milligram insect-scale autonomous crawling robot driven by a catalytic artificial muscle

Science Robotics, 2020
A subgram fully autonomous insect-sized crawling robot called RoBeetle is powered by the controlled catalytic combustion of fuel. The creation of autonomous subgram microrobots capable of complex behaviors remains a grand challenge in robotics largely ...
Xiufeng Yang, L. Chang, N. O. Pérez-Arancibia   +2 more
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Somatosensitive film soft crawling robots driven by artificial muscle for load carrying and multi-terrain locomotion.

Materials Horizons, 2021
Somatosensitive soft crawling robotics is highly desired for load carrying and multi-terrain locomotion. The motor-driven skeleton robots and pneumatic robots are effective and well-developed, while the bulk size, rigidity, or complexity limit their ...
Zhongsheng Liu, Rui Zhang, Yicheng Xiao, Jiatian Li, Wang Chang, D. Qian, Zunfeng Liu   +6 more
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Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots

Science Robotics
This paper introduces an approach to fabricating lightweight, untethered soft robots capable of diverse biomimetic locomotion. Untethering soft robotics from electrical or pneumatic power remains one of the prominent challenges within the field.
Terry Ching, Joseph Zhi Wei Lee, Shane Kyi Hla Win, Luke Thura Soe Win, Danial Sufiyan, Charlotte Pei Xuan Lim, Nidhi Nagaraju, Yi‐Chin Toh, S. Foong, Michinao Hashimoto   +9 more
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A Multi-Modal Tailless Flapping-Wing Robot Capable of Flying, Crawling, Self-Righting and Horizontal Take-Off

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Multi-modal flapping robots demonstrate potential capabilities to accomplish assigned missions in confined indoor and outdoor environments. In this letter, inspired by the multimodal movement of insects, we report a multimodal tailless flapping wing ...
Chaofeng Wu, Yiming Xiao, Jiaxin Zhao, Jiawang Mou, Feng Cui, Wu Liu   +5 more
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A Magnetorheological Fluid-Filled Soft Crawling Robot With Magnetic Actuation

IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics, 2020
While soft/partially soft-bodied robots have extensive applications, robust actuation system, efficient locomotion gait, and simple manufacture process are the main challenging problems.
D. Hua, Xinhua Liu, Shuaishuai Sun, M. Sotelo, Zhixiong Li, Weihua Li   +5 more
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Bioinspired Design of Light‐Powered Crawling, Squeezing, and Jumping Untethered Soft Robot

Advanced Materials & Technologies, 2019
Light has been recently intensively explored to power robots. However, most existing light‐driven robots have limited locomotion modalities, with constrained locomotion capabilities.
Chihyung Ahn, Xudong Liang, S. Cai
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A Versatile Soft Crawling Robot with Rapid Locomotion

Soft Robotics, 2019
This article presents a versatile soft crawling robot capable of rapid and effective locomotion. The robot mainly consists of two vacuum-actuated spring actuators and two electrostatic actuators.
L. Qin, Xinquan Liang, Hui Huang, C. Chui, R. Yeow, Jian Zhu   +5 more
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An Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuator Enabling Earthworm-Like Directed Peristaltic Crawling.

Angewandte Chemie, 2018
Peristaltic crawling, which is the moving mechanism of earthworm-like limbless creatures in narrow spaces, is a challenging target to mimic by using soft materials.
Zhifang Sun, Y. Yamauchi, F. Araoka, Youn Soo Kim, Julián Bergueiro, Y. Ishida, Y. Ebina, T. Sasaki, T. Hikima, T. Aida   +9 more
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JumpRoACH: A Trajectory-Adjustable Integrated Jumping–Crawling Robot

IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics, 2019
In this paper, we present a milliscale-integrated jumping–crawling robot that can adjust its launch trajectory and upright itself. This multimodal robot shows an enhanced performance of overcoming obstacles compared with a robot with a single locomotion ...
Gwang-Pil Jung, C. Casarez, Jongeun Lee, Sang-Min Baek, Sojung Yim, Soo-Hwan Chae, R. Fearing, Kyu-Jin Cho   +7 more
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