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Soft Machines: Elastic Energy Storage Enables Rapid and Programmable Actuation in Soft Machines (Adv. Funct. Mater. 1/2020)
Author(s) -
Pal Aniket,
Goswami Debkalpa,
Martinez Ramses V.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.202070002
Subject(s) - robot , mechanical energy , soft robotics , materials science , power (physics) , elastic energy , energy storage , soft materials , energy (signal processing) , mechanical engineering , computer science , acoustics , nanotechnology , artificial intelligence , physics , engineering , quantum mechanics
In article number 1906603, Ramses V. Martinez, Aniket Pal, and Debkalpa Goswami have developed a new class of entirely soft robots capable of recreating high‐power and high‐speed motions using stored elastic energy. Taking inspiration from the Chameleon's tongue strike, a pre‐stressed pneumatic soft robot is capable of expanding five times its own length, catching a live beetle, and retrieving it in just 120 milliseconds.