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Sensory-motor tissues for soft robots

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18 February 2015



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Sensory-Motor Tissues for Soft Robots

Sensory-Motor Tissues for Soft Robots

In this video, PhD student at LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics Jun Shintake explains his project “Sensory-Motor tissues for Soft Robots”.

 

For more information on this project please see:

The project’s website

New soft antagonistic actuator enables robots to fold

A foldable antagonistic actuator (academic paper)

Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) (academic paper)

 



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