Caterpillar-inspired soft crawling robot with distributed programmable thermal actuation
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf8014
Abstract: Many inspirations for soft robotics are from the natural world, such as octopuses, snakes, and caterpillars. Here, we report a caterpillar-inspired, energy-efficient crawling robot with multiple crawling modes, enabled by joule heating of a patterned… read more here.
Keywords: crawling robot; caterpillar inspired; actuation; inspired soft ... See more keywords