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Modular fabrication and design of thick rigid-foldable origami metamaterials
Sunao Tomita, Hiroki Kobayashi, Shoko Arita +4
Origami metamaterials offer significant potential for stiff deployable structures However, fabricating load-bearing cellular structures from thick panels introduces geometric inter…
Automated design of soft-rigid hybrid robots for dynamic locomotion
Hiroki Kobayashi, Yuki Takaha, Changyoung Yuhn +4
Rigid-bodied robots often lack compliance needed to adapt to unstructured environments, while fully soft robots, though highly adaptable, struggle with scalability and load capacit…
Computational synthesis of locomotive soft robots by topology optimization
Hiroki Kobayashi, Farzad Gholami, S. Macrae Montgomery +7
Locomotive soft robots (SoRos) have gained prominence due to their adaptability. Traditional locomotive SoRo design is based on limb structures inspired by biological organisms and…