Columbia researchers develop 3D printed soft robotic muscles
Columbia researchers develop 3D printed soft robotic muscles
Researchers at Columbia Engineering, the engineering department of New York’s Columbia University, have developed a 3D printed synthetic soft muscle with an “intrinsic expansion ability.” The incredible actuator, which paves the way for fully soft robots, can lift 1,000 times its own weight.
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20170919- ... yours.html
https://www.aslanmiriyev.com/soft-mater ... t-robotics
This operates off of low voltage currents - 8V, instead of high voltage >1000 volt of electro active polymers.
It has extremely low cost - 3 cents per gram of actuator weight, claimed easy to fabricate. Likely could be made and size.
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Re: Columbia researchers develop 3D printed soft robotic mus
Yes, we know.
If you read the Nature article, you'd see that it's it's based on a 20% ethanol/Platinum Silicone mixture, and it's actuated by a heating element.
Technically, you should be able to make a 'muscle' by yourself.
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Re: Columbia researchers develop 3D printed soft robotic mus
That would be nice... then when my back goes out again, my doll can carry me to the bed and give me a sponge bath.DenaMeier wrote:The incredible actuator, which paves the way for fully soft robots, can lift 1,000 times its own weight.
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Re: Columbia researchers develop 3D printed soft robotic mus
Now that they have a working concept, perhaps they could use substances other than ethanol, and a different way of getting the substance to expand besides using a heating element.
That might be a key to speeding things up.