Pipe VSDT 3D-Printed jumping Soft Robots from Harvard

3D-Printed jumping Soft Robots from Harvard

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Traditional industrial robots are rigid as well as fast, precise, and powerful. Their speed and accuracy come at the cost of complexity and can often pose a danger to humans who get too close. Soft robots are adaptable and resilient but slow, difficult to fabricate, and challenging to make autonomous because most motors, pumps, batteries, sensors, and microcontrollers are rigid.
But what if you could combine the autonomy and speed of a rigid robot with the adaptability and resiliency of a soft robot, and do so relatively cheaply and quickly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVL4SUj1jGs&list=PLK2ccNIJVPpC7ny_lpawhue_k3pfwqTQ2

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2016-01-12 22:32
3D-Printed jumping Soft Robots from Harvard
evilviper@pipedot.org
Traditional industrial robots are rigid as well as fast, precise, and powerful. Their speed and accuracy come at the cost of complexity and can often pose a danger to humans who get too close. Soft robots are adaptable and resilient but slow, difficult to fabricate, and challenging to make autonomous because most motors, pumps, batteries, sensors, and microcontrollers are rigid.
But what if you could combine the autonomy and speed of a rigid robot with the adaptability and resiliency of a soft robot, and do so relatively cheaply and quickly?

https://wyss.harvard.edu/vieww.youtubpre.com/watch?v=aVL4SUj1jGs&srelease/207/a-jump;list=PLK2ccNIJVPpC7ny_lpawhue_k3p-fwqTQ2or-softbodied-robots
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Harvard link (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-12-20 07:36 (#Y8G9)