Light‐Driven, Caterpillar‐Inspired Miniature Inching Robot

• Published in: Macromolecular rapid communications. Vol. 39; no. 1
• Main Authors: Zeng, Hao, Wani, Owies M., Wasylczyk, Piotr, Priimagi, Arri
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Artificial muscles; azobenzene; biomimetic; Deformation; Elastomers; Energy sources; Equipment Design; Humans; Light; liquid crystal elastomer; Liquid crystals; Liquid Crystals - chemistry; Locomotion; Luminous intensity; Materials selection; Mimicry; Molecular Structure; Muscles; photoactuation; Robotics; Robots; Skin; Skin - chemistry; Substrates; Surface Properties; azobenzene; photoactuation; liquid crystal elastomer; biomimetic; locomotion

Liquid crystal elastomers are among the best candidates for artificial muscles, and the materials of choice when constructing microscale robotic systems. Recently, significant efforts are dedicated to designing stimuli‐responsive actuators that can reproduce the shape‐change of soft bodies of animal...