Untethered kirigami soft robots with programmable locomotion

• Main Authors: Wang, Jinqiang, Wang, Ruichen, Zhu, Zixiao, Zhou, Kun, Wang, Dong
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Engineering; Hard magnetic disks; Magnetic actuation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173854
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Kirigami can induce shape transformations in planar and nonplanar geometry by rational cut design, significantly increasing the kinematics degree of freedom. Here, we exploit kirigami metamaterials and hard-magnetic actuation to design untethered soft robots. The kirigami soft robot, consisting of s...