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Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots

Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots
Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots
Soft robotics opens up a whole range of possibilities that go far beyond conventional rigid and electromagnetic robotics. New smart materials and new design and modelling methodologies mean we can start to replicate the operations and functionalities of biological organisms, most of which exploit softness as a critical component. These range from mechanical responses, actuation principles and sensing capabilities. Additionally, the homeostatic operations of organisms can be exploited in their robotic counterparts. We can, in effect, start to make robotic organisms, rather than just robots. Important new capabilities include the fabrication of robots from soft bio-polymers, the ability to drive the robot from bio-energy scavenged from the environment, and the degradation of the robot at the end of its life. The robot organism therefore becomes an entity that lives, dies, and decays in the environment, just like biological organisms. In this chapter we will examine how soft robotics have the potential to impact upon pressing environmental pollution, protection and remediation concerns.
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95-101
Springer
Rossiter, Jonathan
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Winfield, Jonathan
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Ieropoulos, Ioannis
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Laschi, Cecilia
Rossiter, Jonathan
Iida, Fumiya
Cianchetti, Matteo
Margheri, Laura
Rossiter, Jonathan
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Winfield, Jonathan
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Ieropoulos, Ioannis
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Laschi, Cecilia
Rossiter, Jonathan
Iida, Fumiya
Cianchetti, Matteo
Margheri, Laura

Rossiter, Jonathan, Winfield, Jonathan and Ieropoulos, Ioannis (2017) Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots. In, Laschi, Cecilia, Rossiter, Jonathan, Iida, Fumiya, Cianchetti, Matteo and Margheri, Laura (eds.) Soft Robotics: Trends, Applications and Challenges. (Biosystems and Biorobotics, 17) Springer, pp. 95-101. (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46460-2_12).

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Soft robotics opens up a whole range of possibilities that go far beyond conventional rigid and electromagnetic robotics. New smart materials and new design and modelling methodologies mean we can start to replicate the operations and functionalities of biological organisms, most of which exploit softness as a critical component. These range from mechanical responses, actuation principles and sensing capabilities. Additionally, the homeostatic operations of organisms can be exploited in their robotic counterparts. We can, in effect, start to make robotic organisms, rather than just robots. Important new capabilities include the fabrication of robots from soft bio-polymers, the ability to drive the robot from bio-energy scavenged from the environment, and the degradation of the robot at the end of its life. The robot organism therefore becomes an entity that lives, dies, and decays in the environment, just like biological organisms. In this chapter we will examine how soft robotics have the potential to impact upon pressing environmental pollution, protection and remediation concerns.

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Published date: 2017

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Local EPrints ID: 454576
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/454576
PURE UUID: 37d5df77-b5b1-44da-b11e-bf5522a91503
ORCID for Ioannis Ieropoulos: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9641-5504

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Date deposited: 16 Feb 2022 17:41
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:10

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Author: Jonathan Rossiter
Author: Jonathan Winfield
Editor: Cecilia Laschi
Editor: Jonathan Rossiter
Editor: Fumiya Iida
Editor: Matteo Cianchetti
Editor: Laura Margheri

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