Liquid metal smart materials toward soft robotics

S Chen, HZ Wang, TY Liu, J Liu - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Unlike conventional rigid machines, soft robots generally have unique operation styles that
rely heavily on soft matter engineering and smart material systems. Owing to the superior …

Touchdown to take-off: at the interface of flight and surface locomotion

WRT Roderick, MR Cutkosky, D Lentink - Interface focus, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Small aerial robots are limited to short mission times because aerodynamic and energy
conversion efficiency diminish with scale. One way to extend mission times is to perch, as …

Overcoming the adhesion paradox and switchability conflict on rough surfaces with shape-memory polymers

C Linghu, Y Liu, YY Tan, JHM Sing… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Smart adhesives that can be applied and removed on demand play an important role in
modern life and manufacturing. However, current smart adhesives made of elastomers suffer …

Rotorigami: A rotary origami protective system for robotic rotorcraft

P Sareh, P Chermprayong, M Emmanuelli… - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
Applications of aerial robots are progressively expanding into complex urban and natural
environments. Despite remarkable advancements in the field, robotic rotorcraft is still …

Skills for physical artificial intelligence

A Miriyev, M Kovač - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020 - nature.com
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Electrically active smart adhesive for a perching-and-takeoff robot

H Liu, H Tian, D Wang, T Yuan, J Zhang, G Liu, X Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Perching-and-takeoff robot can effectively economize onboard power and achieve long
endurance. However, dynamic perching on moving targets for a perching-and-takeoff robot …

An integrated delta manipulator for aerial repair: A new aerial robotic system

P Chermprayong, K Zhang, F Xiao… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of entering hazardous areas and accessing
hardto-reach locations at high altitudes. However, small-scale UAVs are inherently unstable …

Tails stabilize landing of gliding geckos crashing head-first into tree trunks

R Siddall, G Byrnes, RJ Full, A Jusufi - Communications biology, 2021 - nature.com
Animals use diverse solutions to land on vertical surfaces. Here we show the unique landing
of the gliding gecko, Hemidactylus platyurus. Our high-speed video footage in the Southeast …

Compliant bistable grippers enable passive perching for micro aerial vehicles

H Zhang, E Lerner, B Cheng… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) with multiple rotors, or multicopters, have many promising
applications ranging from environmental monitoring, agricultural inspection, to package …

A soft-bodied aerial robot for collision resilience and contact-reactive perching

PH Nguyen, K Patnaik, S Mishra, P Polygerinos… - Soft …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Current aerial robots demonstrate limited interaction capabilities in unstructured
environments when compared with their biological counterparts. Some examples include …