Wavelength-Selective, IR Light-Driven Hinges Based on Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Composites

摘要

Robotics technology has a broad impact on industries as diverse as manufacturing, logistics, medicine, healthcare, military, agriculture, and consumer products. Unlike biological systems, traditional robots have rigid underlying structures that are usually made of metals, which limit their ability to interact with the environment and handle fragile or irregular objects of various shapes and sizes. There has been an increasing interest in the field of bioinspired soft robotics recently. With soft materials-based structures and highly redundant degrees of freedom, these robots can be used for carrying soft, fragile payloads without causing damage and working in cluttered and/or unstructured environments by employing large strain deformation.