Soft Ultrathin Electronics Innervated Adaptive Fully Soft Robots

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dc.citation.articleNumber1706695en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber13en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleAdvanced Materialsen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber30en_US
dc.contributor.authorWang, Chengjunen_US
dc.contributor.authorSim, Kyoseungen_US
dc.contributor.authorChen, Jinen_US
dc.contributor.authorKim, Hojinen_US
dc.contributor.authorRao, Zhoulyuen_US
dc.contributor.authorLi, Yuhangen_US
dc.contributor.authorChen, Weiqiuen_US
dc.contributor.authorSong, Jizhouen_US
dc.contributor.authorVerduzco, Rafaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorYu, Cunjiangen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-13T18:12:11Zen_US
dc.date.available2018-08-13T18:12:11Zen_US
dc.date.issued2018en_US
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.en_US
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.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201706695en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/102454en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rightsThis is an author's peer-reviewed manuscript. The published article is copyrighted by Wiley.en_US
dc.subject.keywordsoft robotsen_US
dc.subject.keywordadaptiveen_US
dc.subject.keywordartificial muscleen_US
dc.subject.keywordsoft electronicsen_US
dc.titleSoft Ultrathin Electronics Innervated Adaptive Fully Soft Robotsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpost-printen_US
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