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Instant and Reversible Adhesive-free Bonding Between Silicones and Glossy Papers for Soft Robotics
Takumi Shibuya, Kazuya Murakami, Akitsu Shigetou +1
Integrating silicone with non-extensible materials is a common strategy used in the fabrication of fluidically-driven soft actuators, yet conventional approaches often rely on irre…
Plant Robots: Harnessing Growth Actuation of Plants for Locomotion and Object Manipulation
Kazuya Murakami, Misao Sato, Momoki Kubota +1
Plants display physical displacements during their growth due to photosynthesis, which converts light into chemical energy. This can be interpreted as plants acting as actuators wi…
Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings
Bokeon Kwak, Jun Shintake, Lu Zhang +1
Drones have shown to be useful aerial vehicles for unmanned transport missions such as food and medical supply delivery. This can be leveraged to deliver life-saving nutrition and…
Soft Pneumatic Gelatin Actuator for Edible Robotics
Jun Shintake, Harshal Sonar, Egor Piskarev +2
We present a fully edible pneumatic actuator based on gelatin-glycerol composite. The actuator is monolithic, fabricated via a molding process, and measures 90 mm in length, 20 mm…
Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots
D. Zappetti, S. Mintchev, J. Shintake +1
In this paper, we introduce a design principle to develop novel soft modular robots based on tensegrity structures and inspired by the cytoskeleton of living cells. We describe a n…
A Novel Propulsion Method of Flexible Underwater Robots
Jun Shintake, Aiguo Ming, Makoto Shimojo
This paper presents aims at mobility improvement of flexible underwater robots. For this purpose, a novel propulsion method using planar structural vibration pattern is proposed, a…