From Coils to Crawls: A Snake-Inspired Soft Robot for Multimodal Locomotion and Grasping.

ABSTRACT: Currently, numerous biomimetic robots inspired by natural biological systems have been developed. However, creating soft robots with versatile locomotion modes remains a significant challenge. Snakes, as invertebrate reptiles, exhibit diverse and powerful locomotion abilities, including prey constriction, sidewinding, accordion locomotion, and winding climbing, making them a focus of robotics research. In this study, we present a snake-inspired soft robot with an initial coiling structure, fabricated using MXene-cellulose nanofiber ink printed on pre-expanded polyethylene film through direct ink writing technology. The controllable fabrication of initial coiling structure soft robot (ICSBot) has been achieved through theoretical calculations and finite element analysis to predict and analy

SUBMITTER: Chen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12043558 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature