| manuchandel | Date: Thursday, 10-February-2022, 1:28 PM | Message # 1 |
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| New soft robot morphs from a ground to air vehicle using liquid metal
by Virginia Tech
Drone able to morph and bends using liquid metal. Credit: Virginia Tech
Imagine a small autonomous vehicle that could drive over land, stop, and flatten itself into a quadcopter. The rotors start spinning, and the vehicle flies away. Looking at it more closely, what do you think you would see? What mechanisms have caused it to morph from a land vehicle into a flying quadcopter? You might imagine gears and belts, perhaps a series of tiny servo motors that pulled all its pieces into place.
If this mechanism was designed by a team at Virginia Tech led by Michael Bartlett, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, you would see a new approach for shape changing at the material level. These researchers use rubber, metal, and temperature to morph materials and fix them into place with no motors or pulleys. The team's work has been published in Science Robotics. Co-authors of the paper include graduate students Dohgyu Hwang and Edward J. Barron III and postdoctoral researcher A. B. M. Tahidul Haque.
Read more/full article/source - https://techxplore.com/news/2022-02-soft-robot-morphs-ground-air.html
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