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Soft Robotics

Illustration of spinal cord

Flexible, Robotic Nerve ‘Cuffs’ Offer Potential for Minimally Invasive Monitoring and Treatment of Neurological Conditions

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Technology
Rendering of pleurocystitid (left) next to the soft robot they modeled after the ancient sea creature.

How ancient sea creatures can inform soft robotics

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology
The robotic garment (above), worn around the hips and thighs, gives a gentle push to the hips as the leg swings, helping the patient achieve a longer stride.

Soft robotic, wearable device improves walking for individual with Parkinson’s disease

Categories Health, Technology
Example of new UC San Diego device that can grip objects with no electronics involved.

This 3D Printed Gripper Doesn’t Need Electronics To Function

Categories Technology
Actuation of ferroelectric polymers driven by Joule heating. Credit: Qing Wang. All Rights Reserved.

New ferroelectric material could give robots muscles

Categories Technology
Illustration of robot fish and its Antagonistic muscles

Robot fish makes splash with motion breakthrough

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology
Researchers have come up with an innovative approach to building deformable underwater robots using simple repeating substructures. The team has demonstrated the new system in two different example configurations, one like an eel, pictured here in the MIT tow tank. Credits:Credit: Courtesy of the researchers

Engineers devise a system to produce efficient aquabots

Categories Technology
Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than previous swimming soft robots. The robots are called “butterfly bots,” because their swimming motion resembles the way a person’s arms move when they are swimming the butterfly stroke.

‘Butterfly bot’ is fastest swimming soft robot yet

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Technology

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