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Leveraging elastic instabilities for amplified performance: Spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots

Soft machines typically exhibit slow locomotion speed and low manipulation strength because of intrinsic limitations of soft materials. Here, we present a generic design principle that harnesses mechanical instability for a variety of spine-inspired fast and strong soft machines. Unlike most current...

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Autores principales: Tang, Yichao, Chi, Yinding, Sun, Jiefeng, Huang, Tzu-Hao, Maghsoudi, Omid H., Spence, Andrew, Zhao, Jianguo, Su, Hao, Yin, Jie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7209986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32494714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz6912