Title:
The Evolution of Soft Robotics
The Evolution of Soft Robotics
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Shepherd, Robert
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Abstract
The field of soft mechanisms and sensors provides
an exciting opportunity for new hardware
development in robotics, a field that is becoming
more and more important. This talk describes the
development of soft mechanisms, sensors, and
their integration into robots for purposes that span
from biomimicry, biomedical devices, to virtual
reality immersion. My research group, the Organic
Robotics Laboratory (ORL), chooses to use
intrinsically soft elastomers to compose our robots
and have created sensors based on optical waveguides, actuators based on poroelastic foams,
and color changing robots based on stretchable,
light emitting capacitors. The materials, processing,
and mechanics of these systems will be discussed,
as well as the potential for future development and
integration of these (and other) systems.
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2017-10-18
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44:39 minutes
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Lecture