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A Multifunctional Light-Driven Swimming Soft Robot for Various Application Scenarios

The locomotor behavior of creatures in nature can bring a lot of inspiration for the fabrication of soft actuators. In this paper, we fabricated a bionic light-driven swimming soft robot that can perform grasping of tiny objects and achieve the task of object transfer. By adding carbon nanotubes (CN...

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Autores principales: Wang, Zhen, Shi, Dongni, Wang, Xiaowen, Chen, Yibao, Yuan, Zheng, Li, Yan, Ge, Zhixing, Yang, Wenguang
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9455906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36077007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms23179609
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author Wang, Zhen
Shi, Dongni
Wang, Xiaowen
Chen, Yibao
Yuan, Zheng
Li, Yan
Ge, Zhixing
Yang, Wenguang
author_facet Wang, Zhen
Shi, Dongni
Wang, Xiaowen
Chen, Yibao
Yuan, Zheng
Li, Yan
Ge, Zhixing
Yang, Wenguang
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description The locomotor behavior of creatures in nature can bring a lot of inspiration for the fabrication of soft actuators. In this paper, we fabricated a bionic light-driven swimming soft robot that can perform grasping of tiny objects and achieve the task of object transfer. By adding carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the temperature-sensitive hydrogels can be endowed with light-responsive properties. The fabricated composite hydrogel structure can control the contraction and expansion of volume by light, which is similar to the contraction and diastole behavior of muscles. The oscillation of the fish tail and the grasping action of the normally closed micromanipulator can be achieved by the control of the irradiation of the xenon light source. The bending of the bionic arm can be controlled by the irradiation of a near-infrared (NIR) laser, which transforms the spatial position and posture of the micromanipulator. The proposed scheme is feasible for miniaturized fabrication and application of flexible actuators. This work provides some important insights for the study of light-driven microrobots and light-driven flexible actuators.
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spelling pubmed-94559062022-09-09 A Multifunctional Light-Driven Swimming Soft Robot for Various Application Scenarios Wang, Zhen Shi, Dongni Wang, Xiaowen Chen, Yibao Yuan, Zheng Li, Yan Ge, Zhixing Yang, Wenguang Int J Mol Sci Article The locomotor behavior of creatures in nature can bring a lot of inspiration for the fabrication of soft actuators. In this paper, we fabricated a bionic light-driven swimming soft robot that can perform grasping of tiny objects and achieve the task of object transfer. By adding carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the temperature-sensitive hydrogels can be endowed with light-responsive properties. The fabricated composite hydrogel structure can control the contraction and expansion of volume by light, which is similar to the contraction and diastole behavior of muscles. The oscillation of the fish tail and the grasping action of the normally closed micromanipulator can be achieved by the control of the irradiation of the xenon light source. The bending of the bionic arm can be controlled by the irradiation of a near-infrared (NIR) laser, which transforms the spatial position and posture of the micromanipulator. The proposed scheme is feasible for miniaturized fabrication and application of flexible actuators. This work provides some important insights for the study of light-driven microrobots and light-driven flexible actuators. MDPI 2022-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9455906/ /pubmed/36077007 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms23179609 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Zhen
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Wang, Xiaowen
Chen, Yibao
Yuan, Zheng
Li, Yan
Ge, Zhixing
Yang, Wenguang
A Multifunctional Light-Driven Swimming Soft Robot for Various Application Scenarios
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title_full A Multifunctional Light-Driven Swimming Soft Robot for Various Application Scenarios
title_fullStr A Multifunctional Light-Driven Swimming Soft Robot for Various Application Scenarios
title_full_unstemmed A Multifunctional Light-Driven Swimming Soft Robot for Various Application Scenarios
title_short A Multifunctional Light-Driven Swimming Soft Robot for Various Application Scenarios
title_sort multifunctional light-driven swimming soft robot for various application scenarios
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9455906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36077007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms23179609
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