A soft robot crawls, climbs, and snaps into new shapes using a single air input, enhancing adaptability for medical and ...

A new type of soft robot can crawl like a worm, climb cables, and suddenly snap into a completely different shape to move in ...

Soft robots are flexible but usually require complex systems for precise movement. To aid that, the new design uses a Snap Inflatable Modular Metastructure (SIMM) to smoothly deform and rapidly ...

a robot must be powered by soft actuators. Dielectric elastomer transducers (DETs) offer many advantages as artificial muscles. They are lightweight, have a high work density, and are capable of ...

A new type of soft robot can crawl like a worm, climb cables, and suddenly snap into a completely different shape to move in a new direction—all ...

We examine the deformation during motion of 1 and 2 degrees of freedom (DOF) for an inflatable body. The inflatable robot arm has a soft inflatable body as links and rigid servo actuators as joints.

Abstract: The development of soft pneumatic actuators has expanded their applications due to flexibility and adaptability in wearable systems. Among these, flat inflatable artificial muscles (FIAMs) ...

A new type of soft robot can crawl like a worm, climb cables, and suddenly snap into a completely different shape to move in ...

That's a vision Markus Nemitz, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University, has been working on for many years, and now it's starting to take physical shape with the creation of ...