Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots
Broad adoption of magnetic soft robotics is hampered by the sophisticated field paradigms for their manipulation and the complexities in controlling multiple devices. Furthermore, high‐throughput fabrication of such devices across spatial scales remains challenging. Here, advances in fiber‐based act...
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| author | Lee, Youngbin Koehler, Florian Dillon, Tom Loke, Gabriel Kim, Yoonho Marion, Juliette Antonini, Marc‐Joseph Garwood, Indie C Sahasrabudhe, Atharva Nagao, Keisuke Zhao, Xuanhe Fink, Yoel Roche, Ellen T Anikeeva, Polina |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Lee, Youngbin Koehler, Florian Dillon, Tom Loke, Gabriel Kim, Yoonho Marion, Juliette Antonini, Marc‐Joseph Garwood, Indie C Sahasrabudhe, Atharva Nagao, Keisuke Zhao, Xuanhe Fink, Yoel Roche, Ellen T Anikeeva, Polina |
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| description | Broad adoption of magnetic soft robotics is hampered by the sophisticated field paradigms for their manipulation and the complexities in controlling multiple devices. Furthermore, high‐throughput fabrication of such devices across spatial scales remains challenging. Here, advances in fiber‐based actuators and magnetic elastomer composites are leveraged to create 3D magnetic soft robots controlled by unidirectional fields. Thermally drawn elastomeric fibers are instrumented with a magnetic composite synthesized to withstand strains exceeding 600%. A combination of strain and magnetization engineering in these fibers enables programming of 3D robots capable of crawling or walking in magnetic fields orthogonal to the plane of motion. Magnetic robots act as cargo carriers, and multiple robots can be controlled simultaneously and in opposing directions using a single stationary electromagnet. The scalable approach to fabrication and control of magnetic soft robots invites their future applications in constrained environments where complex fields cannot be readily deployed. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1531252024-03-20T20:07:11Z Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots Lee, Youngbin Koehler, Florian Dillon, Tom Loke, Gabriel Kim, Yoonho Marion, Juliette Antonini, Marc‐Joseph Garwood, Indie C Sahasrabudhe, Atharva Nagao, Keisuke Zhao, Xuanhe Fink, Yoel Roche, Ellen T Anikeeva, Polina Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Broad adoption of magnetic soft robotics is hampered by the sophisticated field paradigms for their manipulation and the complexities in controlling multiple devices. Furthermore, high‐throughput fabrication of such devices across spatial scales remains challenging. Here, advances in fiber‐based actuators and magnetic elastomer composites are leveraged to create 3D magnetic soft robots controlled by unidirectional fields. Thermally drawn elastomeric fibers are instrumented with a magnetic composite synthesized to withstand strains exceeding 600%. A combination of strain and magnetization engineering in these fibers enables programming of 3D robots capable of crawling or walking in magnetic fields orthogonal to the plane of motion. Magnetic robots act as cargo carriers, and multiple robots can be controlled simultaneously and in opposing directions using a single stationary electromagnet. The scalable approach to fabrication and control of magnetic soft robots invites their future applications in constrained environments where complex fields cannot be readily deployed. 2023-12-06T15:19:37Z 2023-12-06T15:19:37Z 2023-09 2023-12-06T15:16:55Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153125 Lee, Youngbin, Koehler, Florian, Dillon, Tom, Loke, Gabriel, Kim, Yoonho et al. 2023. "Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots." Advanced Materials, 35 (38). en 10.1002/adma.202301916 Advanced Materials Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ application/pdf Wiley Wiley |
| spellingShingle | Lee, Youngbin Koehler, Florian Dillon, Tom Loke, Gabriel Kim, Yoonho Marion, Juliette Antonini, Marc‐Joseph Garwood, Indie C Sahasrabudhe, Atharva Nagao, Keisuke Zhao, Xuanhe Fink, Yoel Roche, Ellen T Anikeeva, Polina Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots |
| title | Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots |
| title_full | Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots |
| title_fullStr | Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots |
| title_full_unstemmed | Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots |
| title_short | Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots |
| title_sort | magnetically actuated fiber based soft robots |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153125 |
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