Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : September 26, 2022 - September 28, 2022
Soft robots employing soft polymer materials such as gels and elastomers have various advantages such as compact, lightweight, and silent motion. Recently, biomimetic structures driven by pneumatic control have been attracting attention though various driving sources have been proposed. In this study, we have fabricated auxetic channel structure in elastomer using 3D printer and aimed to develop a novel wearable device with liquid metal inflow, and cylinder-shaped soft robot with an armored (exoskeleton-like) auxetic structure with a negative poisson's ratio that placed around bellows-typed tube. We have investigated the structural variability and walking performance of the armored cylinder structure.
