Soft Robotics

News | Micro Robots for Polymer Degradation; Electro-Controlled Adhesive Hydrogels for Climbing Robots; Georgia Tech’s “Aggregated Particle Robots”

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News | Micro Robots for Polymer Degradation; Electro-Controlled Adhesive Hydrogels for Climbing Robots; Georgia Tech's "Aggregated Particle Robots"

1.Self-Propelled, Light-Controlled, Magnetically Navigated Micro Robots for Polymer Degradation Professor Martin Pumera’s team at Brno University of Technology has designed and developed self-propelled, light-driven, magnetically navigated hematite/metal dual-sided micro robots capable of degrading polymer chains in water. These micro robots exhibit fuel-free self-propulsion characteristics under UV light and feature programmable control for on/off switching and … Read more

The Resilient Micro-Insect Robot: Artificial Muscles Drive 450 Beats Per Second

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The Resilient Micro-Insect Robot: Artificial Muscles Drive 450 Beats Per Second

Bionic robots have always been a research hotspot, and recently scientists have turned their attention to insect bionic design. If a robot can be invented based on the tiny brain structure of insects, capable of moving freely under complex conditions, it could not only perform directional actions but also possess strong navigation and survival abilities … Read more

Tsinghua University’s Miniature Soft Robot Can Climb Various Surfaces, Change Size from 6 to 90 mm, and Even Somersault!

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Tsinghua University's Miniature Soft Robot Can Climb Various Surfaces, Change Size from 6 to 90 mm, and Even Somersault!

What does the strongest climbing robot in history look like? Drumroll, the answer is revealed— Don’t be fooled by its small size; it has conquered almost all types of terrain! It belongs to the family of miniature soft robots, and in addition to basic surfaces like walls, slopes, and ceilings, it can traverse cylindrical surfaces, … Read more

Empowering Flexible Sensor Innovation with Nanotechnology

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Empowering Flexible Sensor Innovation with Nanotechnology

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

Cutting-Edge Research: Magnetic Soft-bodied Robots

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Cutting-Edge Research: Magnetic Soft-bodied Robots

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

Enhancing Payload Capacity of Flexible Microbots

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Enhancing Payload Capacity of Flexible Microbots

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

Transforming Arduino Boards into Flexible Circuits for Soft Robotics

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Transforming Arduino Boards into Flexible Circuits for Soft Robotics

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