Fast Untethered Soft Robotic Crawler with Elastic Instability
Zechen Xiong,Yufeng Su,Hod Lipson,Zechen Xiong,Yufeng Su,Hod Lipson
Enlightened by the fast-running gait of mammals like cheetahs and wolves, we design and fabricate a single-actuated untethered compliant robot that is capable of galloping at a speed of 313 mm/s or 1.56 body length per second (BL/s), faster than most reported soft crawlers in mm/s and BL/s. An in-plane prestressed hair clip mechanism (HCM) made up of semirigid materials, i.e. plastics are used as ...
