New robotic actuator extends and contracts like a biological muscle, in a crawling soft robot that bends in tight environments and an artificial bicep that lifts weights. It stiffens like a human muscle, a property missing from soft robotics, to help robots ‘behave and move like living organisms’.
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Northwestern
Creating artificial ‘muscles’ for safer, softer robots
Simplified, low-cost soft devices enable worm-like crawling, bicep-like lifting and more
Robots, which are classified as either rigid (hard) or soft, struggle to screw in lightbulbs. But researchers recently developed a hybrid “hard and soft robot” that’s both flexible and sensitive enough to handle a lightbulb, and strong enough to apply the necessary torque to screw it in.
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Northeastern Global News
Northeastern engineers develop hybrid robot that balances strength and flexibility — and can screw in a lightbulb
The robot works courtesy of a new material similar to the constant-velocity joints you find connecting a wheel to the axle of your car.
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