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Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
34546008
Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fibers are capable of large and reversible deformations, making them an ideal artificial muscle. However, limited to stimulating source and structural design, current LCE fibers have not yet achieved both large contract...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
34530411
In order to obtain entirely soft bio-inspired robots, fully soft electronic circuits are needed. Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are electroactive polymers that have demonstrated multifunctionality. The same material can achieve different tasks like actu...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
35062583
Dielectric elastomer (DE) sensors have been widely used in a wide variety of applications, such as in robotic hands, wearable sensors, rehabilitation devices, etc. A unique dielectric elastomer-based multimodal capacitive sensor has been developed to...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
34798626
Modeling system dynamics becomes challenging when the properties of individual system components cannot be directly measured, and often requires identification of properties from observed motion. In this paper, we show that systems whose movement is ...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
35343110
Elastomer-granule composites have been used to switch between soft and stiff states by applying negative pressure differentials that cause the membrane to squeeze the internal grains, inducing dilation and jamming. Applications of this phenomenon hav...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
35285168
Water-responsive (WR) materials that reversibly deform in response to humidity changes show great potential for developing muscle-like actuators for miniature and biomimetic robotics. Here, it is presented that Bacillus (B.) subtilis' peptidoglycan (...
Materials horizons
35040453
Photoresponsive soft actuators with the unique merits of flexibility, contactless operation, and remote control have huge potential in technological applications of bionic robotics and biomedical devices. Herein, a facile strategy was proposed to pre...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
35408370
The magnetorheological elastomer is promising material for applications in soft robotics. Its properties like reactive to external magnetic field and softness allow to construct an attractive devices. This work presents a construction of soft gripper...
Science robotics
35613300
In complex systems like aircraft engines and oil refinery machines, pipeline inspection is an essential task for ensuring safety. Here, we proposed a type of smart material-driven pipeline inspection robot (weight, 2.2 grams; length, 47 millimeters; ...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
35657031
Elastomers with high dielectric permittivity that self-heal after electric breakdown and mechanical damage are important in the emerging field of artificial muscles. Here, a one-step process toward self-healable, silicone-based elastomers with large ...