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A Millimeter‐Scale Snail Robot Based on a Light‐Powered Liquid Crystal Elastomer Continuous Actuator
Author(s) -
Rogóż Mikołaj,
Dradrach Klaudia,
Xuan Chen,
Wasylczyk Piotr
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.201970036
Subject(s) - actuator , elastomer , materials science , robot , millimeter , propulsion , crawling , soft robotics , liquid crystal , mechanical engineering , composite material , optics , optoelectronics , computer science , aerospace engineering , engineering , electrical engineering , physics , artificial intelligence , medicine , anatomy
Front Cover : In article number 1900279, Piotr Wasylczyk and co‐workers demonstrate a light‐powered, soft snail robot capable of adhesive locomotion. The traveling deformation used for the robot propulsion is generated by photo‐mechanical response in a liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) continuous actuator. Crawling on various surfaces and in many configurations is presented, up to the extreme of an upside‐down glass plate.