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2D Skeletal Muscle Thin Film Actuators Enhance Efficiency of Biohybrid Robots

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
2D skeletal muscle thin film actuators generate millinewton‐scale forces and millimeter‐scale strokes while remaining functional for over 30 days. Their force density is 20‐fold higher than 3D skeletal muscle actuators, enabling multi‐fin robots with tunable speed and multidirectional steering.
Maheera Bawa, Arielle Berman, Laura Schwendeman, Ferdows Afghah, Seanbiron Johnson, Ritu Raman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Origami-Inspired Negative Pressure Folding Actuator Coupling Hardness with Softness

Actuators, 2023
Soft actuators have a high potential for the creative design of flexible robots and safe human–robot interaction. So far, significant progress has been made in soft actuators’ flexibility, deformation amplitude, and variable stiffness. However, there are
Zhaowen Shao, Wentao Zhao, Zhaotian Zuo, Jun Li, I-Ming Chen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bipedal locomotion using variable stiffness actuation

CoRR, 2017
Robust and energy-efficient bipedal locomotion in robotics is still a challenging topic. In order to address issues in this field, we can take inspiration from nature, by studying human locomotion. The Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum (SLIP) model has shown to be a good model for this purpose.
Ludo C. Visser, Stefano Stramigioli, Raffaella Carloni   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A 2-DOF Joint With Coupled Variable Output Stiffness [PDF]

, 2017
This paper presents a 2-degree-of-freedom (DOF) joint with coupled variable output stiffness that makes use of three actuators, i.e., two for the 2-D joint motions and one for the joint stiffness adjustment.
Brouwer, Dannis M., Tan , Daniel J., Fumagalli, Matteo; id_orcid, Carloni, Raffaella, Tan, Daniël J., Fumagalli, Matteo   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Microscale Patterning of Ultrahigh‐Viscosity Metallic‐Polymer Composites via Embedded Droplet Writing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A hybrid additive manufacturing platform integrates direct droplet writing of metallic composite with VAT photopolymerization to fabricate architected soft magnetic composites. This approach enables microscale patterning of high‐viscosity materials for programmable actuators, adaptive fluidic devices, and switchable adhesives, offering tunable ...
Yeowon Yoon, Jian Ni, Sungmo Park, Yang Xu, Yong Chen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pneumatic Soft Actuation in Elbow Rehabilitation Devices: Actuator Architectures, Sensing Modalities, and Control Strategies—Scoping Review

Actuators
Soft and compliant rehabilitation devices may provide improved anatomical adaptability, reduced distal mass, and more flexible human–robot interaction compared with conventional rigid exoskeletons.
Attila Mészáros, József Sárosi
doaj   +1 more source

Full‐Field Damage Monitoring in Architected Lattices Using In situ Electrical Impedance Tomography

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In situ electrical impedance tomography (EIT) turns 3D‐printed, CNT‐infused architected lattices into full‐field damage‐imaging systems. Tunable Voronoi‐based geometries act as active sensing architectures, enabling conductivity maps to detect early‐stage damage and localise sequential ligament fracture before catastrophic failure.
Akash Deep, Andrea Samore, Alistair McEwan, Andrew McBride, Shanmugam Kumar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lighter and Stronger: Cofabricated Electrodes and Variable Stiffness Elements in Dielectric Actuators

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020
The inherent compliance of soft robots often makes it difficult for them to exert forces on surrounding surfaces or withstand mechanical loading. Controlled stiffness is a solution to empower soft robots with the ability to apply large forces on their ...
Yegor Piskarev, Jun Shintake, Vivek Ramachandran, Neil Baugh, Michael D. Dickey, Dario Floreano   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

XTRUDE: A Process‐Informed Framework for High‐Fidelity Analysis of Hydrogel Extrusion

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Extrusion performance emerges from the interplay between material properties and processing conditions. XTRUDE (eXTrusion Rheology for Understanding and Defining Extrudability) recreates the extrusion environment with in situ pressure and temperature sensing, enabling characteristic pressure signatures to quantify extrusion‐specific phenomena and ...
Farhad Sanaei, Pascal Bertsch, Juliette Lafosse, Sander C. G. Leeuwenburgh, Mani Diba   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecularly Dissipative Liquid Crystal Elastomer Foams for Impact and Vibration Attenuation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Liquid crystal elastomer foams integrate cellular deformation with mesogen reorientation to create a dual‐scale energy dissipation mechanism. Progressive pore collapse absorbs mechanical loads, while stress‐induced mesogen reorientation provides additional damping, resulting in reduced impact transmission and broadband suppression of vibrational ...
Subi Choi, Sangyeop Lee, In‐sun Jeong, Kyungjun Song, Eugene M. Terentjev, Suk‐kyun Ahn   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source