The soft fiber actuator is an ultrafine, electrically driven "soft yarn" made from flexible polymer capable of bending, contracting, and producing complex three-dimensional movements upon the application of an electrical voltage.
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Soft Fibers that Move with Electricity

Soft actuators - materials that convert electrical energy into motion

Engineers Create Soft Robots That Can Literally Walk on Water

Scientists have developed HydroSpread, a novel technique for building soft robots on water, with wide-ranging possibilities in robotics, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. Picture a miniature robot, no larger than a leaf, gliding effortlessly across the surface of a pond, much like a water strider. In the future, machines of this scale could be deployed to [...]

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Engineers Create Soft Robots That Can Literally Walk on Water

Scientists have developed HydroSpread, a novel technique for building soft robots on water, with wide-ranging possibilities in robotics, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. Picture a miniature robot, no larger than a leaf, gliding effortlessly across the surface of a pond, much like a water strider. In the future, machines of this scale could be deployed to [...]

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Engineers Create Soft Robots That Can Literally Walk on Water

Scientists have developed HydroSpread, a novel technique for building soft robots on water, with wide-ranging possibilities in robotics, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. Picture a miniature robot, no larger than a leaf, gliding effortlessly across the surface of a pond, much like a water strider. In the future, machines of this scale could be deployed to [...]

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Engineers Create Soft Robots That Can Literally Walk on Water

Scientists have developed HydroSpread, a novel technique for building soft robots on water, with wide-ranging possibilities in robotics, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. Picture a miniature robot, no larger than a leaf, gliding effortlessly across the surface of a pond, much like a water strider. In the future, machines of this scale could be deployed to [...]

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3D Printing Pneumatic Channels With Dual Materials For Soft Robots

Pneumatics are a common way to add some motion to soft robotic actuators, but adding it to a robot can be somewhat of a chore. A method demonstrated by [Jackson K. Wilt] et al. (press release, prepโ€ฆ

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๐ŸงชDehnbare Leiter aus Flรผssigmetall: leitfรคhig bei 500% Dehnung, selbstheilend aber noch weit von Marktreife

๐Ÿ‘‰ Meine Meinung: Der Impuls zรคhlt. Die Herausforderung liegt in der Skalierbarkeit, nicht im Material.

(Video Credits to Cell Press / iScience, 14.06.2018, via CELL PRESS / ISC, "Video S1. MPC for Stretchable Circuits, Related to Figure 3"; Social Media-Bearbeitung: Rinor Restelica)

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ํ™์ฝฉ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ง„์ด ๋‹ฌํŒฝ์ด์—์„œ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ์†Œํ˜• ๋กœ๋ด‡(๋กœ๋ด‡ ์Šค๋„ค์ผ)์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋กœ๋ด‡๋“ค์€ ํก์ฐฉ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„œ๋กœ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ๋‹จ๋…์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ๋” ํฐ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฌผ์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ํ˜‘์—…ํ˜• ์ƒ์ฒด๋ชจ์‚ฌ ๋กœ๋ด‡์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

https://x.com/lukas_m_ziegler/status/2013276139028975673

#robotics #bioinspired #swarm #softrobotics

Lukas Ziegler (@lukas_m_ziegler) on X

Robot snails, bio-inspired robots that team up! ๐ŸŒ Researchers at The University of Hong Kong have built small robots modeled after snails that can operate individually or connect together to take on larger tasks. Using suction to bond, they can form structures like a robotic

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Lukas Ziegler (@lukas_m_ziegler)

SpiRobs๋ผ๋Š” ์—ฐ์„ฑ(soft) ๋กœ๋ด‡ ์„ค๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๊ฐœ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ๊ทธ(๋กœ๊ทธ) ์ŠคํŒŒ์ด๋Ÿด ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์ž์—ฐ์—์„œ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ๋ฌธ์–ด ํŒ”์ด๋‚˜ ์ฝ”๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ฝ”์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์œ ์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์žก์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋‹จ์ˆœ ์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ๊ตฌ๋™์œผ๋กœ ์›€์ง์—ฌ ์ œ์–ด์™€ ์ œ์ž‘์ด ๋น„๊ต์  ์šฉ์ดํ•œ ์œ ์—ฐ ๋กœ๋ด‡ ์‘์šฉ ์‚ฌ๋ก€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

https://x.com/lukas_m_ziegler/status/2005551513758736395

#softrobotics #robotics #biomimicry #manipulation #research

Lukas Ziegler (@lukas_m_ziegler) on X

Robots with tentacles! ๐Ÿ™ SpiRobs are soft robots inspired by nature, designed in the shape of a logarithmic spiral. They mimic the flexible movements of octopus arms and elephant trunks to grasp objects. ๐Ÿ˜ SpiRobs use simple cables to move, making them easy to control and

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