A Continuum Robot Surface of Woven, McKibben Muscles Embedded in and Giving Shape to Rooms
Grace Tan,Harrison Hidalgo,Hsin-Liu Kao,Ian. D. Walker,Keith E. Green,Grace Tan,Harrison Hidalgo,Hsin-Liu Kao,Ian. D. Walker,Keith E. Green
Robots are typically designed as occupants of rooms, adapting to, and navigating within them. “Robot surfaces,” an emerging robot typology, are not occupants of but integral with rooms, physically shaping rooms to support human activity. We report on an advancement of robot surfaces formed by weaving McKibben Pneumatic Air Muscles that, when actuated, morph a 2D planar surface to generate 3D geome...
