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Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence: Summary Report
Victoria A. Webster-Wood, Nicholas Gravish, Amir Alavi +37
This report provides a summary of the outcomes of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence held in 2024. Mechanical Intelligence (MI) represents the phenomenon tha…
Robots That Generate Planarity Through Geometry
Jakub F. Kowalewski, Abdulaziz O. Alrashed, Jacob Alpert +3
Constraining motion to a flat surface is a fundamental requirement for equipment across science and engineering. Modern precision robotic motion systems, such as gantries, rely on…
Reconfigurable Auxetic Devices (RADs) for Robotic Surface Manipulation
Jacob Miske, Ahyan Maya, Ahnaf Inkiad +1
Robotic surfaces traditionally use materials with a positive Poisson's ratio to push and pull on a manipulation interface. Auxetic materials with a negative Poisson's ratio may exp…
ProForm: Solder-Free Circuit Assembly Using Thermoforming
Narjes Pourjafarian, Zhenming Yang, Jeffrey I. Lipton +2
Electronic waste (e-waste) is a growing global challenge, with millions of functional components discarded due to the difficulty of repair and reuse. Traditional circuit assembly r…
SCCRUB: Surface Cleaning Compliant Robot Utilizing Bristles
Jakub F. Kowalewski, Keeyon Hajjafar, Alyssa Ugent +1
Scrubbing surfaces is a physically demanding and time-intensive task. Removing adhered contamination requires substantial friction generated through pressure and torque or high lat…
Spring-Brake! Handed Shearing Auxetics Improve Efficiency of Hopping and Standing
Joseph Sullivan, Ian Good, Samuel A. Burden +1
Energy efficiency is critical to the success of legged robotics. Efficiency is lost through wasted energy during locomotion and standing. Including elastic elements has been shown…
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…
Torque Responsive Metamaterials Enable High Payload Soft Robot Arms
Ian Good, Srivatsan Balaji, David Oh +2
Soft robots have struggled to support large forces and moments while also supporting their own weight against gravity. This limits their ability to reach certain configurations nec…
Electrostatic Clutch-Based Mechanical Multiplexer with Increased Force Capability
Timothy E. Amish, Jeffrey T. Auletta, Chad C. Kessens +2
As robotic systems become increasingly articulated, conventional actuation still dedicates one motor to each degree of freedom (DoF). Mechanical multiplexers address this limitatio…
Torsion Resistant Strain Limiting Layers Enable High Grip Strength of Electrically-Driven Handed Shearing Auxetic Grippers
Ian Good, Srivatsan Balaji, Jeffrey I. Lipton
Soft grippers have demonstrated a strong ability to successfully pick and manipulate many objects. A key limitation to their wider adoption is their inability to grasp larger paylo…
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…
Johnsen-Rahbek Capstan Clutch: A High Torque Electrostatic Clutch
Timothy E. Amish, Jeffrey T. Auletta, Chad C. Kessens +2
In many robotic systems, the holding state consumes power, limits operating time, and increases operating costs. Electrostatic clutches have the potential to improve robotic perfor…
Enhancing the Performance of Pneu-net Actuators Using a Torsion Resistant Strain Limiting Layer
Ian Sullivan Good, Srivatsan Balaji, Jeffrey Ian Lipton
Pneunets are the primary form of soft robotic grippers. A key limitation to their wider adoption is their inability to grasp larger payloads due to objects slipping out of grasps.…