Robotics : science preceding science fiction

Robots and artificial machines have been captivating the public for centuries, depicted first as threats to humanity, then as subordinates and helpers. In the last decade, the booming exposure of humans to robots has fostered an increasing interest in soft robotics. By empowering robots with new phy...

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Main Author: Le Ferrand, Hortense
Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
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Published: 2019
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1054572023-03-04T17:19:18Z Robotics : science preceding science fiction Le Ferrand, Hortense School of Materials Science & Engineering School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Composite Microstructure DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering Robots and artificial machines have been captivating the public for centuries, depicted first as threats to humanity, then as subordinates and helpers. In the last decade, the booming exposure of humans to robots has fostered an increasing interest in soft robotics. By empowering robots with new physical properties, autonomous actuation, and sensing mechanisms, soft robots are making increasing impacts on areas such as health and medicine. At the same time, the public sympathy to robots is increasing. However, there is still a great need for innovation to push robotics toward more diverse applications. To overcome the major limitation of soft robots, which lies in their softness, strategies are being explored to combine the capabilities of soft robots with the performance of hard metallic ones by using composite materials in their structures. After reviewing the major specificities of hard and soft robots, paths to improve actuation speed, stress generation, self-sensing, and actuation will be proposed. Innovations in controlling systems, modeling, and simulation that will be required to use composite materials in robotics will be discussed. Finally, based on recently developed examples, the elements needed to progress toward a new form of artificial life will be described. Published version 2019-06-12T07:52:33Z 2019-12-06T21:51:41Z 2019-06-12T07:52:33Z 2019-12-06T21:51:41Z 2019 Journal Article Le Ferrand, H. (2019). Robotics : science preceding science fiction. MRS Bulletin, 44(4), 295-301. doi:10.1557/mrs.2019.68 0883-7694 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105457 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48685 10.1557/mrs.2019.68 en MRS Bulletin © 2019 Materials Research Society. All rights reserved. This paper was published by Cambridge University Press in MRS Bulletin and is made available with permission of Materials Research Society. 7 p. application/pdf
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Robotics : science preceding science fiction
description Robots and artificial machines have been captivating the public for centuries, depicted first as threats to humanity, then as subordinates and helpers. In the last decade, the booming exposure of humans to robots has fostered an increasing interest in soft robotics. By empowering robots with new physical properties, autonomous actuation, and sensing mechanisms, soft robots are making increasing impacts on areas such as health and medicine. At the same time, the public sympathy to robots is increasing. However, there is still a great need for innovation to push robotics toward more diverse applications. To overcome the major limitation of soft robots, which lies in their softness, strategies are being explored to combine the capabilities of soft robots with the performance of hard metallic ones by using composite materials in their structures. After reviewing the major specificities of hard and soft robots, paths to improve actuation speed, stress generation, self-sensing, and actuation will be proposed. Innovations in controlling systems, modeling, and simulation that will be required to use composite materials in robotics will be discussed. Finally, based on recently developed examples, the elements needed to progress toward a new form of artificial life will be described.
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