Soft Machines: Elastic Energy Storage Enables Rapid and Programmable Actuation in Soft Machines (Adv. Funct. Mater. 1/2020) | Zendy

Pal Aniket | Zendy; Goswami Debkalpa | Zendy; Martinez Ramses V. | Zendy

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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.

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