{"id":140982,"date":"2022-06-22T23:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-universal-approach-to-tailoring-soft-robots"},"modified":"2022-06-22T23:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:24:36","slug":"a-universal-approach-to-tailoring-soft-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-universal-approach-to-tailoring-soft-robots","title":{"rendered":"A universal approach to tailoring soft robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-universal-approach-to-tailoring-soft-robots3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By combining two distinct approaches into an integrated workflow, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) researchers have developed a novel automated process for designing and fabricating customized soft robots. Their method, published in <i>Advanced Materials Technologies<\/i>, can be applied to other kinds of soft robots\u2014allowing their mechanical properties to be tailored in an accessible manner.<\/p>\n<p>Though robots are often depicted as stiff, metallic structures, an emerging class of pliable machines known as <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/soft+robots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">soft robots<\/a> is rapidly gaining traction. Inspired by the flexible forms of living organisms, soft robots have wide applications in sensing, movement, object grasping and manipulation, among others. Yet, such robots are still mostly fabricated through manual casting techniques\u2014limiting the complexity and geometries that can be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost fabrication approaches are predominantly manual due to a lack of standard tools,\u201d said SUTD Assistant Professor Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado, who led the study. \u201cBut 3D printing or additive manufacturing is slowly coming into play as it facilitates repeatability and allows more complex designs\u2014improving quality and performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By combining two distinct approaches into an integrated workflow, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) researchers have developed a novel automated process for designing and fabricating customized soft robots. Their method, published in Advanced Materials Technologies, can be applied to other kinds of soft robots\u2014allowing their mechanical properties to be tailored in an accessible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160179,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140982\/revisions\/160179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}