Source: MEMS Original Author: Yin Fei from MEMS Consulting Flexible sensors refer to sensors made from flexible materials, which possess good flexibility, ductility, and can even be bent or folded freely, with a variety of structural forms. With the growing demand for flexible sensors, academia, industry, and other related parties are researching how to leverage … Read more
Small magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed for different modes of movement, enabling navigation and operation in unstructured, confined, and dynamic environments. These soft micro-robots can be used in medical applications, where the robot’s task is to move within the human body. Recently, Ziyu Ren & Metin Sitti from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent … Read more
In the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, the development of flexible microbots is entering the fast lane. They can not only perform colonoscopies and minimally invasive surgeries but also delicately retouch classical paintings. This is all thanks to passive compliance technology, which allows robots to adjust their state according to task requirements, improving efficiency … Read more
Recently, a research team from Yale University did something interesting: they designed the well-known rigid Arduino boards into flexible, stretchable circuits and integrated them into soft robots, achieving 300% high stretchability and providing advanced computing capabilities for soft robots. This groundbreaking work was successfully published in Science Robotics (IF=26.1). To achieve functionality in the real … Read more