6 papers
Fabrication-Directed Entanglement for Designing Chiral and Anisotropic Metamaterial Foams
Daniel Revier, Jeffrey Ian Lipton
Entangled networks are fundamental in various systems, from biological structures to engineered materials. Current techniques for programming entanglement often rely on intricate c…
Bridging Hard and Soft: Mechanical Metamaterials Enable Rigid Torque Transmission in Soft Robots
Molly Carton, Jakub F. Kowalewski, Jiani Guo +4
Torque and continuous rotation are fundamental methods of actuation and manipulation in rigid robots. Soft robot arms use soft materials and structures to mimic the passive complia…
Foams with 3D Spatially Programmed Mechanics Enabled by Autonomous Active Learning on Viscous Thread Printing
Brett Emery, Kelsey L. Snapp, Daniel Revier +4
Foams are versatile by nature and ubiquitous in a wide range of applications, including padding, insulation, and acoustic dampening. Previous work established that foams 3D printed…
Design and Reprogrammability of Zero Modes in 2D Materials from a Single Element
Daniel Revier, Molly Carton, Jeffrey I. Lipton
Mechanical extremal materials, a class of metamaterials that exist at the bounds of elastic theory, possess the extraordinary capability to engineer any desired elastic behavior by…
Kinematic Modeling of Handed Shearing Auxetics via Piecewise Constant Curvature
Aman Garg, Ian Good, Daniel Revier +2
Handed Shearing Auxetics (HSA) are a promising technique for making motor-driven, soft, continuum robots. Many potential applications from inspection tasks to solar tracking requir…
Expanding the Design Space for Electrically-Driven Soft Robots through Handed Shearing Auxetics
Ian Good, Tosh Brown-Moore, Aditya Patil +2
Handed Shearing Auxetics (HSA) are a promising structure for making electrically driven robots with distributed compliance that convert a motors rotation and torque into extension…