Soft Robotics: Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale (Advanced Optical Materials 11/2016)
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- 作者：Mikołaj Rogó ; ż ; Hao Zeng ; Chen Xuan ; Diederik Sybolt Wiersma and Piotr Wasylczyk
- 刊名：Advanced Optical Materials
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：November 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：4
- 期：11
- 页码：1902
- 全文大小：4222K
- ISSN：2195-1071
文摘
With proper alignment of the molecules in liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) films, the material deformation can be engineered. On page 1689, P. Wasylczyk and co-workers show that, upon illumination with laser light, a 15 mm long stripe of LCE soft material curls in a way that mimics the caterpillar body motion. The miniature soft robot can crawl on flat surfaces, climb slopes, squeeze through obstacles, and transport loads.