Soft Ultrathin Electronics Innervated Adaptive Fully Soft Robots

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dc.citation.articleNumber1706695
dc.citation.issueNumber13
dc.citation.journalTitleAdvanced Materials
dc.citation.volumeNumber30
dc.contributor.authorWang, Chengjun
dc.contributor.authorSim, Kyoseung
dc.contributor.authorChen, Jin
dc.contributor.authorKim, Hojin
dc.contributor.authorRao, Zhoulyu
dc.contributor.authorLi, Yuhang
dc.contributor.authorChen, Weiqiu
dc.contributor.authorSong, Jizhou
dc.contributor.authorVerduzco, Rafael
dc.contributor.authorYu, Cunjiang
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-13T18:12:11Z
dc.date.available2018-08-13T18:12:11Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractSoft robots outperform the conventional hard robots on significantly enhanced safety, adaptability, and complex motions. The development of fully soft robots, especially fully from smart soft materials to mimic soft animals, is still nascent. In addition, to date, existing soft robots cannot adapt themselves to the surrounding environment, i.e., sensing and adaptive motion or response, like animals. Here, compliant ultrathin sensing and actuating electronics innervated fully soft robots that can sense the environment and perform soft bodied crawling adaptively, mimicking an inchworm, are reported. The soft robots are constructed with actuators of open‐mesh shaped ultrathin deformable heaters, sensors of single‐crystal Si optoelectronic photodetectors, and thermally responsive artificial muscle of carbon‐black‐doped liquid‐crystal elastomer (LCE‐CB) nanocomposite. The results demonstrate that adaptive crawling locomotion can be realized through the conjugation of sensing and actuation, where the sensors sense the environment and actuators respond correspondingly to control the locomotion autonomously through regulating the deformation of LCE‐CB bimorphs and the locomotion of the robots. The strategy of innervating soft sensing and actuating electronics with artificial muscles paves the way for the development of smart autonomous soft robots.
dc.identifier.citationWang, Chengjun, Sim, Kyoseung, Chen, Jin, et al.. "Soft Ultrathin Electronics Innervated Adaptive Fully Soft Robots." <i>Advanced Materials,</i> 30, no. 13 (2018) Wiley: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201706695.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201706695
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/102454
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rightsThis is an author's peer-reviewed manuscript. The published article is copyrighted by Wiley.
dc.subject.keywordsoft robots
dc.subject.keywordadaptive
dc.subject.keywordartificial muscle
dc.subject.keywordsoft electronics
dc.titleSoft Ultrathin Electronics Innervated Adaptive Fully Soft Robots
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.dcmiText
dc.type.publicationpost-print
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