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A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale.

Science robotics May 25, 2022
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; ...
Robotics Muscles Peristalsis Elastomers Motion
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Design, Fabrication and Analysis of Magnetorheological Soft Gripper.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Apr 2, 2022
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...
Magnetic Fields Robotics Elastomers
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Pump Up the Jam: Granular Media as a Quasi-Hydraulic Fluid for Independent Control Over Isometric and Isotonic Actuation.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) Mar 27, 2022
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...
Communications Media Elastomers Hand Strength Equipment Design Robotics Animals Culture Media
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High Energy and Power Density Peptidoglycan Muscles through Super-Viscous Nanoconfined Water.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) Mar 14, 2022
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 (...
Water Muscles Peptidoglycan Elastomers Robotics
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Intrinsic carbon nanotube liquid crystalline elastomer photoactuators for high-definition biomechanics.

Materials horizons Mar 7, 2022
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...
Elastomers Liquid Crystals Robotics Biomechanical Phenomena Nanotubes, Carbon
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Data-driven geometric system identification for shape-underactuated dissipative systems.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Jan 24, 2022
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 ...
Locomotion Equipment Design Robotics Animals Swimming Elastomers
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A Dielectric Elastomer-Based Multimodal Capacitive Sensor.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Jan 14, 2022
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...
Wearable Electronic Devices Touch Hand Robotics Elastomers
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Modelling dielectric elastomer circuit networks for soft biomimetics.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 12, 2021
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...
Biomimetics Robotics Elastomers Polymers Electronics Humans
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Ultrafast, High-Contractile Electrothermal-Driven Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers towards Artificial Muscles.

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Sep 21, 2021
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...
Robotics Electricity Humans Muscles Liquid Crystals Elastomers
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Reversible Curvature Reversal of Monolithic Liquid Crystal Elastomer Film and Its Smart Valve Application.

Macromolecular rapid communications Aug 30, 2021
Beyond a traditional stimuli-responsive soft actuator that shows a single motion by a stimulus, multidirectional actuation reversal with a single stimulus is highly required in applications such as shape morphing sensors and soft robotics. Liquid cry...
Liquid Crystals Temperature Robotics Elastomers
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