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Autonomous Soft Robots Empowered by Chemical Reaction Networks
, 2022 Hydrogel actuators are important for designing stimuli-sensitive soft robots. They generate mechanical motion by exploiting compartmentalized (de)swelling in response to a stimulus.
Stefano, Di Stefano +4 more
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Stimuli-responsive polymer-based bioinspired soft robots
Micro and Nano Systems Letters, 2023 Soft robotics enables various applications in certain environments where conventional rigid robotics cannot deliver the same performance due to their form factor and stiffness. Animals use their soft external organs to carry out activities in response to
Swati Panda +3 more
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Machine Learning‐Assisted Inverse Design of Soft and Multifunctional Hybrid Liquid Metal Composites
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A machine learning framework is presented for inverse design of synthesizable multifunctional composites containing both liquid metal and solid inclusions. By integrating physics‐based modeling, data‐driven prediction, and Bayesian optimization, the approach enables intelligent design of experiments to identify optimal compositions and realize these ...
Lijun Zhou +5 more
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Gait Synthesis and Resilient Task Planning for Ambulating Soft Robots
, 2022 95 pagesSoft robots are capable of motions and environmental interactions that are not typically achievable by rigid robotic systems. In addition, the materials and fabrication methods used often result in actuators that can be designed and produced ...
Hamill, Scott
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This paper presents a digital microfluidics‐based technique for transferring and reconfiguring soft nanomembranes. Laser‐machined nanothin membranes are picked up, transported, and aligned via tailored surface tension and the actuation of water droplets, enabling the development of flexible electronics, the integration of functional materials on 3D ...
Quang Anh Nguyen +15 more
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Stretchable Electroadhesion for Soft Robots [PDF]
, 2014 With the ongoing rise of soft robots there emerges a need for new soft robotic technologies that can cope with hyper-flexibility and stretchability. In this paper, we describe our developments on enabling controllable adhesion, namely electroadhesion ...
Germann, Jürg Markus +5 more
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Closed-loop 4D-printed soft robots
Materials & Design, 2020 Soft robotics is a recent and rapidly growing field of research that encompasses emerging advances in functional materials, fabrication, modelling, and performance control with important applications in the manipulation of fragile objects.
Ali Zolfagharian +2 more
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Electrocapillary Modulated Interfacial Tension Amplifies Liquid Metal Transduction
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study presented an electrocapillary‐enhanced magnetohydrodynamic pumping strategy that harnesses the Lorentz force and interfacial tension modulation of liquid metal droplets to achieve amplified fluidic power. The system enabled low‐voltage, self‐oscillating fluidic transduction with enhanced pressure and flow generation, supporting compact ...
Saba Firouznia +3 more
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Reduced Graphene Oxide Transparent Electrodes Enabling Compact Soft Tunable Lenses
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.By spray‐coating an elastomeric membrane with reduced graphene oxide (rGO) at various surface densities, elastomeric actuators are manufactured. Electro‐mechano‐optical characterizations show the suitability of rGO as an effective material for compliant, semi‐transparent electrodes, enabling soft electrically tunable lenses with a compact form factor ...
Giacomo Sasso +4 more
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Data from Pellicular Soft Robots (02-2019)
, 2019 This data supports the research article "Pellicular Morphing Surfaces for Soft Robots.
Digumarti, Krishna Manaswi, Conn, Andrew
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