Liquid metal robotics: a new category of soft robotics on the horizon

• 来源期刊: 科学通报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2015,（11）
• 页码范围: 1047-1048
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.1007/s11434-015-0800-5

摘要

Traditional machinery and robotics owe much of its success to the ability of rigid metals to bear stresses without deforming.This assumption,however,breaks down at the biological and cellular scales,where the inflexibility and rigidity of conventional engineering become a liability when compared to the adaptability,multifunctionality,and self-sufficiency of biomaterials.In the past few years,interest has grown significantly in the field of soft roboticsmachinery capable of duplicating the elastic and rheological properties of biological tissues and organs,typically polymeric or elastomeric in nature [1].