Soft Robotics

[Soft Matter] Stimuli-responsive hydrogel microfibers with controlled anisotropic shrinkage and cross-sectional geometries

April 26, 2017

Abstract:

Stimuli-responsive microfibers are fabricated by extruding mixed solutions of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylic acid) (pNIPAM-AAc) and sodium alginate (Na-alginate) using a microfluidic spinning system. The fabricated microfibers shrink and swell with temp...

Presentation

[Presentation] Soft Robotics by Professor George M. Whitesides, Harvard University

March 9, 2017

Abstract

" «Robotics» is a field with broad interest: it combines mechanical engineering, information science, and animal physiology with manufacturing, workforce development, economics, and other areas. The most highly developed classes of robots have been build based...

Conference Article

[Conference]Fabrication strategy for micro soft robotics with semiconductor devices integration

March 4, 2017

Abstract:

We report a general method to fabricate miniaturized soft robots. For the first time, a freestanding microscale robotic finger/tentacle has been realized by heterogeneous integration of soft material polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), liquid metal (LM), and silicon...

Conference Article

[Conference]In situ nano 3D printing of a microfluidic diode

March 4, 2017

Abstract:

Microfluidic components capable of mimicking the functions of electronic circuit elements are critical to applications including soft robots [1] and biochemical fluids processing [2-4]. The emergence of state-of-the-art additive manufacturing or “three-dimensi...

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