{"id":206869,"date":"2025-02-20T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/designing-resilient-soft-robots-using-controlled-failure-mechanisms"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:15:01","slug":"designing-resilient-soft-robots-using-controlled-failure-mechanisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/designing-resilient-soft-robots-using-controlled-failure-mechanisms","title":{"rendered":"Designing Resilient Soft Robots Using Controlled Failure Mechanisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How can programmed failure protocols help improve sheet-based fluidic devices, the latter of which have become a cornerstone in enhancing soft robotics worldwide? This is what a recent study<\/a> published in Cell Reports Physical Science<\/em> hopes to address as an international team of researchers have developed a method for overcoming common failures of sheet-based systems, specifically due to their lightweight and flexible characteristics. This study has the potential to help engineers develop more efficient sheet-based devices, resulting in improved soft robotics designs.<\/p>\n

For the study, the researchers examined how pressure changes could damage heat-sealable textiles that are used in sheet-based devices. Once they determined specific failure thresholds, the team incorporated programmed failures into the design, enabling the device to determine specific failure points and prevent further damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut simply, we are making soft, flexible machines smarter by designing their internal components to fail intentionally in a well-understood manner,\u201d said Dr. Daniel J. Preston<\/a>, who is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Rice University and a co-author on the study. \u201cIn doing so, the resulting systems can recover from pressure surges and even complete multiple tasks using a single control input.\u201d Going forward, the team hopes their research will lead to improved sheet-based fluidic systems, which, as noted, have become a cornerstone of soft robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can programmed failure protocols help improve sheet-based fluidic devices, the latter of which have become a cornerstone in enhancing soft robotics worldwide? This is what a recent study published in Cell Reports Physical Science hopes to address as an international team of researchers have developed a method for overcoming common failures of sheet-based systems, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206869","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\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}