Navigating Soft Robots through Wireless Heating
Yiwen Song,Mason Zadan,Kushaan Misra,Zefang Li,Jingxian Wang,Carmel Majidi,Swarun Kumar,Yiwen Song,Mason Zadan,Kushaan Misra,Zefang Li,Jingxian Wang,Carmel Majidi,Swarun Kumar
Recent work on battery-free soft robotics has demonstrated the use of liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) to build shape-changing materials activated by applied external heat. However, sources of heat must typically be in direct field-of-view of the robot (i.e. NIR, laser, and visual light EM sources or convective heats guns), be tethered to an external power supply (i.e. thermoelectric heating or res...
