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SUBMITTER: Davidson ZS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6874483 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Davidson Zoey S ZS Shahsavan Hamed H Aghakhani Amirreza A Guo Yubing Y Guo Yubing Y Hines Lindsey L Xia Yu Y Yang Shu S Sitti Metin M
Science advances 20191122 11
Soft robotics may enable many new technologies in which humans and robots physically interact, yet the necessary high-performance soft actuators still do not exist. The optimal soft actuators need to be fast and forceful and have programmable shape changes. Furthermore, they should be energy efficient for untethered applications and easy to fabricate. Here, we combine desirable characteristics from two distinct active material systems: fast and highly efficient actuation from dielectric elastome ...[more]