Dexterous electrical-driven soft robots with reconfigurable chiral-lattice foot design.

ABSTRACT: Dexterous locomotion, such as immediate direction change during fast movement or shape reconfiguration to perform diverse tasks, are essential animal survival strategies which have not been achieved in existing soft robots. Here, we present a kind of small-scale dexterous soft robot, consisting of an active dielectric elastomer artificial muscle and reconfigurable chiral-lattice foot, that enables immediate and reversible forward, backward and circular direction changes during fast movement under single voltage input. Our electric-driven soft robot with the structural design can be combined with smart materials to realize multimodal functions via shape reconfigurations under the external stimulus. We experimentally demonstrate that our dexterous soft robots can reach arbitrary points in a

SUBMITTER: Wang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10442442 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature