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The Development of Reconfigurable and Reversible, Shape-Morphing Actuators

Scientists at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created a new method to take a flat sheet of elastomer and change it into a variety of shapes using actuation.

New Technique for Making Safer Robots

Soft actuators are emerging in robotics because they are small, affordable, and could potentially be safer around humans than traditional rigid robots. However, elastic actuators (stretchy membranes that get filled with air) usually must be connected to pumps and compressors in order to work. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany have developed an alternative.

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