4 papers
Architected kirigami metamorphosis
Yanbin Li, Jie Yin
Kirigami, art of paper cutting, enables two-dimensional sheets transforming into unique shapes which are also hard to reshape once with prescribed cutting patterns. Rare kirigami d…
Three-dimensional transformable modular kirigami based programmable architected materials
Yanbin Li, Qiuting Zhang, Yaoye Hong +1
Metamaterials achieve unprecedented properties from designed architected structures. However, they are often constructed from a single repeating building block that exhibits monoto…
Switchable Adhesion Actuator for Amphibious Climbing Soft Robot
Yichao Tang, Qiuting Zhang, Gaojian Lin +1
Climbing soft robots are of tremendous interest in both science and engineering due to their potential applications in intelligent surveillance, inspection, maintenance, and detect…
Design of Multifunctional Soft Doming Actuator for Soft Machines
Yichao Tang, Jie Yin
Bilayer bending based soft actuators are widely utilized in soft robotics for locomotion and object gripping. However, studies on soft actuators based on bilayer doming remain larg…