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Light-Fueled Hydrogel Actuators with Controlled Deformation and Photocatalytic Activity.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) Oct 17, 2022
Hydrogel actuators have shown great promise in underwater robotic applications as they can generate controllable shape transformations upon stimulation due to their ability to absorb and release water reversibly. Herein, a photoresponsive anisotropic...
Water Robotics Hydrogels
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Bioinspired Self-Resettable Hydrogel Actuators Powered by a Chemical Fuel.

ACS applied materials & interfaces Sep 14, 2022
The movements of soft living tissues, such as muscle, have sparked a strong interest in the design of hydrogel actuators; however, so far, typical manmade examples still lag behind their biological counterparts, which usually function under nonequili...
Robotics Hydrogels Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions Movement Muscles
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Self-Healing Approach toward Catalytic Soft Robots.

ACS applied materials & interfaces Aug 29, 2022
Soft robotics is a rapidly evolving research field that focuses on developing robots with bioinspired actuation/sensing mechanisms and highly flexible soft materials, some of which are similar to those found in living organisms. The hydrogel has the ...
Animals Hydrogen Peroxide Robotics Hydrogels Glutaral Odonata
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A Multifunctional Light-Driven Swimming Soft Robot for Various Application Scenarios.

International journal of molecular sciences Aug 25, 2022
The locomotor behavior of creatures in nature can bring a lot of inspiration for the fabrication of soft actuators. In this paper, we fabricated a bionic light-driven swimming soft robot that can perform grasping of tiny objects and achieve the task ...
Temperature Robotics Hydrogels Nanotubes, Carbon Swimming
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In situ integrated microrobots driven by artificial muscles built from biomolecular motors.

Science robotics Aug 24, 2022
Microrobots have been developed for applications in the submillimeter domain such as the manipulation of micro-objects and microsurgery. Rapid progress has been achieved in developing miniaturized components for microrobotic systems, resulting in a v...
Robotics Microsurgery Hydrogels Muscles
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Programmable Auxeticity in Hydrogel Metamaterials via Shape-Morphing Unit Cells.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) Jun 24, 2022
Mechanical metamaterials recruit unique mechanical behavior that is unavailable in bulk materials from a periodic unit cell structure with a specific geometry. However, such metamaterials can typically not be reconfigured once manufactured. Herein, t...
Robotics Prostheses and Implants Hydrogels
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A biomimetic elastomeric robot skin using electrical impedance and acoustic tomography for tactile sensing.

Science robotics Jun 8, 2022
Human skin perceives physical stimuli applied to the body and mitigates the risk of physical interaction through its soft and resilient mechanical properties. Social robots would benefit from whole-body robotic skin (or tactile sensors) resembling hu...
Humans Robotics Acoustics Hydrogels Biomimetics Electric Impedance Touch Tomography
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Small-scale soft grippers with environmentally responsive logic gates.

Materials horizons May 10, 2022
Small-scale soft grippers are adaptive and deformable, and can be utilized for confined environments (, the human body). Small-scale soft grippers require logic-based computation to achieve intelligent control and perform logical analysis of the surr...
Humans Robotics Electronics Hydrogels Logic
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Methods for numerical simulation of knit based morphable structures: knitmorphs.

Scientific reports Apr 22, 2022
Shape morphing behavior has applications in many fields such as soft robotics, actuators and sensors, solar cells, tight packaging, flexible electronics, and biomedicine. The most common approach to achieve shape morphing structures is through shape ...
Computer Simulation Robotics Electronics Hydrogels Finite Element Analysis
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Parallel transmission in a synthetic nerve.

Nature chemistry Apr 21, 2022
Bioelectronic devices that are tetherless and soft are promising developments in medicine, robotics and chemical computing. Here, we describe bioinspired synthetic neurons, composed entirely of soft, flexible biomaterials, capable of rapid electroche...
Water Robotics Neurons Hydrogels Lipid Bilayers
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