Origami-Inspired Printed Robots
Robot manufacturing is currently highly specialized, time consuming, and expensive, limiting accessibility and customization. Existing rapid prototyping techniques (e.g., 3-D printing) can achieve complex geometries and are becoming increasingly accessible; however, they are limited to one or two ma...
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| author | Onal, Cagdas Tolley, Michael T. Wood, Robert J. Rus, Daniela L. |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
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| description | Robot manufacturing is currently highly specialized, time consuming, and expensive, limiting accessibility and customization. Existing rapid prototyping techniques (e.g., 3-D printing) can achieve complex geometries and are becoming increasingly accessible; however, they are limited to one or two materials and cannot seamlessly integrate active components. We propose an alternative approach called printable robots that takes advantage of available planar fabrication methods to create integrated electromechanical laminates that are subsequently folded into functional 3-D machines employing origami-inspired techniques. We designed, fabricated, and tested prototype origami robots to address the canonical robotics challenges of mobility and manipulation, and subsequently combined these designs to generate a new, multifunctional machine. The speed of the design and manufacturing process as well as the ease of composing designs create a new paradigm in robotic development, which has the promise to democratize access to customized robots for industrial, home, and educational use. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1010262022-09-29T10:43:14Z Origami-Inspired Printed Robots Onal, Cagdas Tolley, Michael T. Wood, Robert J. Rus, Daniela L. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Rus, Daniela L. Robot manufacturing is currently highly specialized, time consuming, and expensive, limiting accessibility and customization. Existing rapid prototyping techniques (e.g., 3-D printing) can achieve complex geometries and are becoming increasingly accessible; however, they are limited to one or two materials and cannot seamlessly integrate active components. We propose an alternative approach called printable robots that takes advantage of available planar fabrication methods to create integrated electromechanical laminates that are subsequently folded into functional 3-D machines employing origami-inspired techniques. We designed, fabricated, and tested prototype origami robots to address the canonical robotics challenges of mobility and manipulation, and subsequently combined these designs to generate a new, multifunctional machine. The speed of the design and manufacturing process as well as the ease of composing designs create a new paradigm in robotic development, which has the promise to democratize access to customized robots for industrial, home, and educational use. National Science Foundation (U.S.). Expeditions Program (Grant CCF-1138967) 2016-01-29T00:04:32Z 2016-01-29T00:04:32Z 2015-08 2014-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1083-4435 1941-014X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101026 Onal, Cagdas D., Michael T. Tolley, Robert J. Wood, and Daniela Rus. “Origami-Inspired Printed Robots.” IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatron. 20, no. 5 (October 2015): 2214–2221. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5473-3566 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tmech.2014.2369854 IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Other univ. web domain |
| spellingShingle | Onal, Cagdas Tolley, Michael T. Wood, Robert J. Rus, Daniela L. Origami-Inspired Printed Robots |
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| title_short | Origami-Inspired Printed Robots |
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