A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

Science

Volumn 349, Issue 6244, 2015, Pages 161-165

  Bartlett, Nicholas W ^a,b   Tolley, Michael T ^c   Overvelde, Johannes T B ^a   Weaver, James C ^b   Mosadegh, Bobak ^d   Bertoldi, Katia ^a   Whitesides, George M ^b,e   Wood, Robert J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANE; OXYGEN;

COMBUSTION; OXYGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLAME; GROUND REACTION FORCE; MATERIALS; MECHANICAL STIMULUS TEST; NANOFABRICATION; PRESSURE REGULATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; ROBOTICS; TENSILE STRENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; BIOENGINEERING; HUMAN; LEG; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOENGINEERING; BUTANES; HUMANS; LEG; LOCOMOTION; OXYGEN; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84937567242     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aab0129     Document Type: Article

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