An untethered miniature origami robot that self-folds, walks, swims, and degrades

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2015-June, Issue June, 2015, Pages 1490-1496

  Miyashita, Shuhei ^a   Guitron, Steven ^a   Ludersdorfer, Marvin ^b   Sung, Cynthia R ^a   Rus, Daniela ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIFE CYCLE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; ROBOTICS;

DEVELOPED MODEL; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; ON THE SPOTS; ROBOTIC DEVICES; THERMALLY ACTIVATED;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84938232615     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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