Robotic Materials Transformable Between Elasticity and Plasticity.

ABSTRACT: Robotic materials, with coupled sensing, actuation, computation, and communication, have attracted increasing attention because they are able to not only tune their conventional passive mechanical property via geometrical transformation or material phase change but also become adaptive and even intelligent to suit varying environments. However, the mechanical behavior of most robotic materials is either reversible (elastic) or irreversible (plastic), but not transformable between them. Here, a robotic material whose behavior is transformable between elastic and plastic is developed, based upon an extended neutrally stable tensegrity structure. The transformation does not depend on conventional phase transition and is fast. By integrating with sensors, the elasticity-plasticity transformabl

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10161124 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature