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ADVANCED MATERIALS
卷 30, 期 24, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201703554
关键词
actuators; liquid crystals; microrobots; photomobile; soft robots
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资金
- European Research Council (Starting Grant project PHOTOTUNE) [679646]
- Tampere University of Technology postdoctoral fellowship program
- National Science Centre (Poland) [DEC-2012/05/E/ST3/03281]
- European Research Council (Advanced Grant PHOTBOTS) [291349]
For decades, roboticists have focused their efforts on rigid systems that enable programmable, automated action, and sophisticated control with maximal movement precision and speed. Meanwhile, material scientists have sought compounds and fabrication strategies to devise polymeric actuators that are small, soft, adaptive, and stimuli-responsive. Merging these two fields has given birth to a new class of devices-soft microrobots that, by combining concepts from microrobotics and stimuli-responsive materials research, provide several advantages in a miniature form: external, remotely controllable power supply, adaptive motion, and human-friendly interaction, with device design and action often inspired by biological systems. Herein, recent progress in soft microrobotics is highlighted based on light-responsive liquid-crystal elastomers and polymer networks, focusing on photomobile devices such as walkers, swimmers, and mechanical oscillators, which may ultimately lead to flying microrobots. Finally, self-regulated actuation is proposed as a new pathway toward fully autonomous, intelligent light robots of the future.
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