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3D‐Printed Serial Snap‐Through Architectures for Programmable Mechanical Response

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A serial snap‐through architecture is realized using compact 3D‐printed von Mises truss units arranged in a staged cascade. Their geometry and boundary conditions program multistage mechanical responses with plateaux and re‐hardening regimes. An inverted‐compliance model predicts these behaviors and enables analytical design of programmable force ...
Filipe A. Santos
wiley   +1 more source

Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators

open access: yes, 2019
Macroscale robotic systems have demonstrated great capabilities of high speed, precise, and agile functions. However, the ability of soft robots to perform complex tasks, especially in centimeter and millimeter scale, remains limited due to the ...
Aghakhani, Amirreza   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Ideal Molecular Sieving with a Dense MOF for Helium Upgrading with Highly Diffusion Selective Mixed Matrix Membranes

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The separation of Helium gas from natural gas is challenging but highly important. MIL‐116(Ga), a “non‐porous” metal–organic framework is used as a molecular sieve to separate He from CH4. Druse‐like MIL‐116(Ga) particles are integrated into polysulfone mixed matrix membranes.
Ayisha Komal   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dual Actuator Wave‐Like Navigator: An Untethered Soft Crawling Robot for Multisurface Locomotion

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems
Wave‐based mechanisms inspired by traveling wave locomotion in animals have shown great potential use in robots to navigate unstructured environments.
Mathias Jensen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advancing Electronic Application of Coordination Solids: Enhancing Electron Transport and Device Integration via Surface‐Mounted MOFs (SURMOFs)

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The layer‐by‐layer (LbL) assembly of coordination solids, enabled by the surface‐mounted metal‐organic framework (SURMOF) platform, is on the cusp of generating the organic counterpart of the epitaxy of inorganics. The programmable and sequential SURMOF protocol, optimized by machine learning (ML), is suited for accessing high‐quality thin films of ...
Zhengtao Xu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soft Adaptive Feet for Legged Robots: An Open-Source Model for Locomotion Simulation

open access: yesIEEE Access
In recent years, artificial feet based on soft robotics and under-actuation principles emerged to improve mobility on challenging terrains. This paper presents the application of the MuJoCo physics engine to realize a digital twin of an adaptive soft ...
Matteo Crotti   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soft Robots Manufacturing: A Review [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018
The growing interest in soft robots comes from the new possibilities offered by these systems to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies. Many innovative solutions have been developed in recent years to design soft components and systems.
Schmitt, François   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

3D (Bio) Printing Combined Fiber Fabrication Methods for Tissue Engineering Applications: Possibilities and Limitations

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Biofabrication aims at providing innovative technologies and tools for the fabrication of tissue‐like constructs for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. By integrating multiple biofabrication technologies, such as 3D (bio) printing with fiber fabrication methods, it would be more realistic to reconstruct native tissue's ...
Waseem Kitana   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scalable Co-Optimization of Morphology and Control in Embodied Machines

open access: yes, 2017
Evolution sculpts both the body plans and nervous systems of agents together over time. In contrast, in AI and robotics, a robot's body plan is usually designed by hand, and control policies are then optimized for that fixed design.
Bongard, Josh   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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