Bioinspired and wearable robotics
A soft, fast and versatile electrohydraulic gripper with capacitive object size detection
A versatile jellyfish-like robotic platform for effective underwater propulsion and manipulation
Electrohydraulic musculoskeletal robotic leg for agile, adaptive, yet energy-efficient locomotion
A multifunctional soft robotic shape display with high-speed actuation, sensing, and control
Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Pleasant Broad-Bandwidth Haptic Cues
Robotic Materials
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Spider-Inspired Electrohydraulic Actuators for Fast, Soft-Actuated Joints
Unlike most animals, who rely on antagonistic pairs of muscles to move their joints, spiders use a hydraulic mechanism to extend their joints and they use muscles only for flexion. This lightweight hydraulic mechanism allows spiders to...
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Electromechanics of planar HASEL actuators
Planar HASEL (hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic) actuators are stretchable, soft artificial muscles, with self-healing properties and muscle-like performance [
]. They have, with 70 J/kg, greater specific energies than...
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]. They have, with 70 J/kg, greater specific energies than...
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Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Enhanced Directional Actuation to Electric Fields
Dielectric elastomer actuators are a class of soft actuators, which consist of compliant, elastomeric membranes and are coated on both sides with compliant electrodes. When a voltage is applied between the electrodes, a Maxwell stress...
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