All-Soft Skin-Like Structures for Robotic Locomotion and Transportation.

ABSTRACT: Human skins are active, smart, and stretchable. Artificial skins that can replicate these properties are promising materials and technologies that will enable lightweight, cost-effective, portable, and deployable soft devices and robots. We show an active, stretchable, and portable artificial skin (ElectroSkin) that combines dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) and soft electroadhesives (EAs) in a fully compliant multilayer composite skin-like structure. By taking advantage of the common characteristics of DEA and EA, we define regions of the composite artificial skin as either active or passive. Active areas can be exploited as electromechanical actuators or as electrostatic gripper elements, or both simultaneously. This embedded multimodality delivers a new technology of deformable acti

SUBMITTER: Guo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7301317 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature