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Share Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a four-legged soft robot that doesn’t need any electronics to work. The robot only needs a constant source of pressurized air for all its functions, including its controls and locomotion systems. The team, led by Michael T. Tolley, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, details its findings in the Feb. 17, 2021 issue of the journal Science Robotics. “This work represents a fundamental yet significant step towards fully-autonomous, electronics-free walking robots,” s...
Engineers have created a four-legged soft robot that moves without the use of electronics — it purely operates on pressurized air. The team at the University of San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering shared the details of its invention in the journal Literally all this soft robot needs is a constant source of pressurized air for its four limbs to move. Pure and simple. Although, it isn't such a simple process to develop such a robot. Most soft robots already operate using pressurized air, but they also require some form of an electronic circuit in order to function. "This work repr...
E-Mail IMAGE: Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a four-legged soft robot that doesn't need any electronics to work. The robot only needs a constant source of pressurized... view more Credit: University of California San Diego Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a four-legged soft robot that doesn't need any electronics to work. The robot only needs a constant source of pressurized air for all its functions, including its controls and locomotion systems. The team, led by Michael T. Tolley, a professor of mechanical engine...