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A Soft Transporter Robot Fueled by Light
Mobile organisms with ability for locomotion and transportation, such as humans and other animals, utilize orchestrated actuation to perform actions. Mimicking these functionalities in synthetic, light‐responsive untethered soft‐bodied devices remains a challenge. Inspired by multitasking and mobile...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7055549/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32154076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201902842 |
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author | Pilz da Cunha, Marina Ambergen, Sebastiaan Debije, Michael G. Homburg, Erik F. G. A. den Toonder, Jaap M. J. Schenning, Albert P. H. J. |
author_facet | Pilz da Cunha, Marina Ambergen, Sebastiaan Debije, Michael G. Homburg, Erik F. G. A. den Toonder, Jaap M. J. Schenning, Albert P. H. J. |
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description | Mobile organisms with ability for locomotion and transportation, such as humans and other animals, utilize orchestrated actuation to perform actions. Mimicking these functionalities in synthetic, light‐responsive untethered soft‐bodied devices remains a challenge. Inspired by multitasking and mobile biological systems, an untethered soft transporter robot with controlled multidirectional locomotion with the ability of picking up, transporting, and delivering cargo driven entirely by blue light is created. The soft robot design is an ensemble of light‐responsive liquid crystalline polymers that can harness motion either collectively or individually to obtain a high degree of motion control for the execution of advanced tasks in a dry environment. Through orchestrated motion of the device's “legs”, single displacement strides, which exceed 4 mm and can be taken in any direction, allow for locomotion around objects. Untethered cargo transportation is demonstrated by a pickup and release mechanism using the device's “arms”. This strategy demonstrates the constructive harnessing of orchestrated motion in assemblies of established actuators, performing complex functions, mimicking constructive behavior seen in nature. |
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spelling | pubmed-70555492020-03-09 A Soft Transporter Robot Fueled by Light Pilz da Cunha, Marina Ambergen, Sebastiaan Debije, Michael G. Homburg, Erik F. G. A. den Toonder, Jaap M. J. Schenning, Albert P. H. J. Adv Sci (Weinh) Full Papers Mobile organisms with ability for locomotion and transportation, such as humans and other animals, utilize orchestrated actuation to perform actions. Mimicking these functionalities in synthetic, light‐responsive untethered soft‐bodied devices remains a challenge. Inspired by multitasking and mobile biological systems, an untethered soft transporter robot with controlled multidirectional locomotion with the ability of picking up, transporting, and delivering cargo driven entirely by blue light is created. The soft robot design is an ensemble of light‐responsive liquid crystalline polymers that can harness motion either collectively or individually to obtain a high degree of motion control for the execution of advanced tasks in a dry environment. Through orchestrated motion of the device's “legs”, single displacement strides, which exceed 4 mm and can be taken in any direction, allow for locomotion around objects. Untethered cargo transportation is demonstrated by a pickup and release mechanism using the device's “arms”. This strategy demonstrates the constructive harnessing of orchestrated motion in assemblies of established actuators, performing complex functions, mimicking constructive behavior seen in nature. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7055549/ /pubmed/32154076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201902842 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Full Papers Pilz da Cunha, Marina Ambergen, Sebastiaan Debije, Michael G. Homburg, Erik F. G. A. den Toonder, Jaap M. J. Schenning, Albert P. H. J. A Soft Transporter Robot Fueled by Light |
title | A Soft Transporter Robot Fueled by Light |
title_full | A Soft Transporter Robot Fueled by Light |
title_fullStr | A Soft Transporter Robot Fueled by Light |
title_full_unstemmed | A Soft Transporter Robot Fueled by Light |
title_short | A Soft Transporter Robot Fueled by Light |
title_sort | soft transporter robot fueled by light |
topic | Full Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7055549/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32154076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201902842 |
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