2 papers
physics.app-ph2022
Snapping for high-speed and high-efficient, butterfly swimming-like soft flapping-wing robot
Yinding Chi, Yaoye Hong, Yao Zhao +2
Natural selection has tuned many flying and swimming animals across different species to share the same narrow design space for optimal high-efficient and energy-saving locomotion,…
physics.app-ph2018
Leveraging Elastic instabilities for Amplified Performance: spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots
Yichao Tang, Yinding Chi, Jiefeng Sun +6
Soft machines typically exhibit slow locomotion speed and low manipulation strength because of intrinsic limitations of soft materials. Here, we present a generic design principle…