Soft Robotics: Light‐Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale (Advanced Optical Materials 11/2016)
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Abstract
With proper alignment of the molecules in liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) films, the material deformation can be engineered. On page 1689, P. Wasylczyk and co-workers show that, upon illumination with laser light, a 15 mm long stripe of LCE soft material curls in a way that mimics the caterpillar body motion. The miniature soft robot can crawl on flat surfaces, climb slopes, squeeze through obstacles, and transport loads.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Materials and Mechanics · Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
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Affiliations
Photonic Nanostructure Facility Institute of Experimental Physics Faculty of Physics University of Warsaw ul. Pasteura 5 02‐093 Warsaw Poland
European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) University of Florence via Nello Carrara 1 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge University, Cambridge 19 JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0HE UK
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