可食無限回転メカニズム

抄録

Edible materials have been utilized for soft robots and made them biodegradable and biocompatible. So far, the authors have devised and realized not only soft edible robotic elements but also hard edible materials essential to tasks such as insertion into a narrow environment. However, hard materials tend to require casting mold and thus have infeasible shapes. In this research, the authors discovered outstanding characteristics of Koya Tofu for subtractive manufacturing. Koya Tofu allows the authors to carve letters on it and sculpt endlessly-rotatable mechanism out of it with the help of milling machines. Its rotation experiment confirmed the usefulness of Koya Tofu in edible robotics.