Chasing biomimetic locomotion speeds: Creating untethered soft robots with shape memory alloy actuators

Xiaonan Huang; Kitty Kumar; Mohammad K Jawed; Amir M Nasab; Zisheng Ye; Wanliang Shan; Carmel Majidi

doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aau7557

Chasing biomimetic locomotion speeds: Creating untethered soft robots with shape memory alloy actuators

Sci Robot. 2018 Dec 19;3(25):eaau7557. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aau7557. Epub 2018 Dec 19.

Authors

Xiaonan Huang¹, Kitty Kumar¹, Mohammad K Jawed^{1

2}, Amir M Nasab³, Zisheng Ye¹, Wanliang Shan³, Carmel Majidi^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
² Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA.
⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. cmajidi@andrew.cmu.edu.
⁵ Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

PMID: 33141693
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aau7557

Abstract

By using compliant lightweight actuators with shape memory alloy, we created untethered soft robots that are capable of dynamic locomotion at biologically relevant speeds.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.