Bobak Mosadegh Panagiotis Polygerinos Christoph Keplinger Sophia Wennstedt Robert F. Shepherd Unmukt Gupta Jongmin Shim Katia Bertoldi Conor J. Walsh George M. Whitesides
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138 USA Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering Harvard University 60 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138 USA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Cambridge MA 02138 USA
摘要:
Four separate soft robotic fingers progressively curl to play notes on a keyboard. The finger-like actuators are made of a silicone elastomer molded from 3D printed parts by G. M. Whitesides and co-workers. On page 2163, these soft fingers are shown to be capable of bending fully in less than 50 ms, actuating over 1 million cycles, and bending along different paths based on their rate of pressurization.