soft_matter_physics - BLOGS - Blacksciencefictionsociety2024-03-28T20:03:53Zhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/soft_matter_physicsTransformers...https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/transformers2019-11-20T10:00:00.000Z2019-11-20T10:00:00.000ZReginald L. Goodwinhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/ReginaldLGoodwin<div><center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uapMIUHUeGk" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">Topics: 3D Printing, Applied Physics, Research, Robotics, Soft Matter Physics</span></p><div style="text-align:justify;"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">The researchers likely watched a lot of Saturday morning cartoons in the 1980s: <a href="https://youtu.be/dFsVMCRmuAg" target="_blank">original intro</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — <em>The majority of soft robots today rely on external power and control, keeping them tethered to off-board systems or rigged with hard components. Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Caltech have <a href="https://physics4thecool.blogspot.com/2019/11/transformers.html" target="_blank">developed soft robotic systems</a>, inspired by origami, that can move and change shape in response to external stimuli, paving the way for fully untethered soft robots. </em></span></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">The research is published in <a href="https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/33/eaax7044" target="_blank">Science Robotics</a>.</span></em></div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div><p><a href="https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/self-folding-rollbot-paves-the-way-for-fully-untethered-soft-robots/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">3D-printed active hinges change shape in response to heat</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">Leah Burrows, SEAS Communications, Wyss Institute, Harvard</span></p></div>