Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces
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DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.add2903
Abstract: Reversible thermoresponsive hydrogels, which swell and shrink (deswell) in the temperature range of 30° to 60°C, provide an attractive material class for operating untethered soft robots in human physiological and ambient conditions. Crawling has been… read more here.
Keywords: crawling gels; contact forces; gels driven; untethered unidirectionally ... See more keywords