Wind-up elastic robot jumps forever when fed infrared light
Researchers built a non-electronic soft robot that keeps jumping under infrared light, showing a repeatable design for autonomous motion without reset.
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Wind-up elastic robot jumps forever when fed infrared light
Robots – that is, self-guided mechanisms interacting with or changing their environments – exist in the popular imagination as large, blocky, metallic beings like R2D2 or TARS from Interstellar. But the field of soft robotics offers a vast array of robotic limbs, sensors, and body types that greatly expand our understanding of what shapes a robot can manifest and what tasks it can perform.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, EngineeringTags: Nort…
We usually imagine robots as machines made of metal, with motors, batteries and control boards. Soft robotics is another way: it builds systems made of stretchable, deformable materials that adapt to uneven terrain and do without rigid components. A problem has remained unresolved so far. Soft robots rarely jump several times in a row because they are reset from the outside after each jump or require elaborate control. A team from North Carolina…
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