Strain-coupled Elastic medium

  • Multifunctional soft elastic medium with periodic hard inclusions
  • Study on local and global responses of periodic lattice-type strain coupling
  • Thin-film property engineering through spatial engineering of structural parameters and configurations of the inclusions
  • Demonstration of programmable surface micro-texturing and various macroscopic strain-sensitive responses
​Further reading:
Adv Mater 30 1802190 (2018) 

Electronic Skin Computer for Biointerfaces

  • A functionally integrated, system-level, skin-like electronic system
  • Fully printed electronic wrap consisting of strain-isolation structures, stretchable interconnects, ICs, and self-assembled vias
  • Modular design using rapid, room-temperature on-skin bonding process
  • Demonstration of stretchable display, wearable watch, wearable sensor-integrated system, and skin-type logic circuits
​Further reading:
Sci Rep 7, 45328 (2017)
Adv Electron Mater 3 1600517 (2017)
Adv Funct Mater 27, 1701912 (2017)
Adv Funct Mater 28, 1806014 (2018)
Adv Sci 6, 1801682 (2019)

Electronic Epidermis for Soft Robots

  • The first skin-like soft driving system for a new direction of soft robotic assembly
  • Development of an electronic epidermis pair that perform wireless inter-skin communication for soft and reversible functionalization of soft robots
  • First demonstration of soft, multi-robot system activated by a single e-skin
​Further reading:
Science Robotics 3 eaas9020 (2019) 

Bioinspired Soft Robots

  • Pelican eel inspired dual-morphing architectures that embody quasi-sequential behaviors of origami unfolding and skin stretching
  • First observation and discovery of the principle that a pelican eel exploits to effectively enable adaptive and extreme shape morphing
  • Reproduction of the dual-morphing behavior of the live pelican eel
  • Demonstration of unexplored realms of kinematic features, locomotion, gripping mechanisms and biomimicry incorporated with wide pools of traditional origami​
​Further reading:
Science Robotics 4 eaay3493 (2019)
Science News (doi:10.1126/science.aav6184)Paragraph

Swimming Robotic Sheets

  • A new underwater maneuvering principle for thin, planar membranes based on buoyancy-mediated active flutter
  • Inspiration from passive flutter dynamics of falling leaves
  • Development of a swimming leaf
  • Hydrodynamic engineering for non-chaotic, periodic fluttering motion
  • Instantaneous, repeatable, and lifelike steering by spatiotemporal buoyancy control
  • Demonstration of functional robotic sheets for autonomous, intelligent environmental remediation
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