Integrating chemical fuels and artificial muscles for untethered microrobots [0.03%]
将化学燃料和人工肌肉集成到无缆微机器人中
Ryan L Truby,Shuguang Li
Ryan L Truby
Continued development of untethered insect-scale robots will require codesigned power and actuation strategies. Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some right...
Jodie L Lutkenhaus,Paraskevi Flouda
Jodie L Lutkenhaus
Multifunctional Zn-air batteries provide energy storage and a body-integrated protective cover for robots. Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights res...
Mingqiang Wang,Drew Vecchio,Chunyan Wang et al.
Mingqiang Wang et al.
Batteries with conformal shape and multiple functionalities could provide new degrees of freedom in the design of robotic devices. For example, the ability to provide both load bearing and energy storage can increase the payload and extend ...
An 88-milligram insect-scale autonomous crawling robot driven by a catalytic artificial muscle [0.03%]
由催化人工肌肉驱动的88毫克级自主爬行昆虫尺度机器人
Xiufeng Yang,Longlong Chang,Néstor O Pérez-Arancibia
Xiufeng Yang
The creation of autonomous subgram microrobots capable of complex behaviors remains a grand challenge in robotics largely due to the lack of microactuators with high work densities and capable of using power sources with specific energies c...
Benjamin Shih,Dylan Shah,Jinxing Li et al.
Benjamin Shih et al.
Soft robots have garnered interest for real-world applications because of their intrinsic safety embedded at the material level. These robots use deformable materials capable of shape and behavioral changes and allow conformable physical co...
Sang-Min Baek,Sojung Yim,Soo-Hwan Chae et al.
Sang-Min Baek et al.
Origami can enable structures that are compact and lightweight. The facets of an origami structure in traditional designs, however, are essentially nondeformable rigid plates. Therefore, implementing energy storage and robust self-locking i...
Actuation of untethered pneumatic artificial muscles and soft robots using magnetically induced liquid-to-gas phase transitions [0.03%]
利用磁致液气相变来驱动未拴系的气动人工肌肉和软体机器人
Seyed M Mirvakili,Douglas Sim,Ian W Hunter et al.
Seyed M Mirvakili et al.
Pneumatic artificial muscles have been widely used in industry because of their simple and relatively high-performance design. The emerging field of soft robotics has also been using pneumatic actuation mechanisms since its formation. Howev...
Benjamin Gorissen,David Melancon,Nikolaos Vasios et al.
Benjamin Gorissen et al.
Fluidic soft actuators are enlarging the robotics toolbox by providing flexible elements that can display highly complex deformations. Although these actuators are adaptable and inherently safe, their actuation speed is typically slow becau...
Multifunctional surface microrollers for targeted cargo delivery in physiological blood flow [0.03%]
多功能表面微滚轮，在生理血液流动中进行目标货物递送
Yunus Alapan,Ugur Bozuyuk,Pelin Erkoc et al.
Yunus Alapan et al.
Mobile microrobots offer great promise for minimally invasive targeted medical theranostic applications at hard-to-access regions inside the human body. The circulatory system represents the ideal route for navigation; however, blood flow i...
Bioinspired underwater legged robot for seabed exploration with low environmental disturbance [0.03%]
低环境干扰的仿生水下多足机器人海底探测器
G Picardi,M Chellapurath,S Iacoponi et al.
G Picardi et al.
Robots have the potential to assist and complement humans in the study and exploration of extreme and hostile environments. For example, valuable scientific data have been collected with the aid of propeller-driven autonomous and remotely o...