Harvard College

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The General Hospital Corporation

Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas

Canon U.s.a., Inc.

Ramses V Martinez

George M Whitesides

Robert F Shepherd

Stephen A Morin

Adam Stokes

Filip Ilievski

Joshua Aaron Lessing

Alok Suryavamsee Tayi

Xin Chen

Zhigang Suo

Sen Wai Kwok

Jason Ming Ting

Aaron D Mazzeo

Zhihong Nie

Jamie L Branch

Won Jae Choi

Carina R Fish

Lihua Jin

Rui M D Nunes

Guillermo J Tearney

Mitsuhiro Ikuta

Dongkyun Kang

Kevin Galloway

Bobak Mosadegh

Francesco Stellacci

Dian Yang

Javier Garcia Martinez

Ricardo Garcia Garcia

Kevin C Galloway

Firat Güder

Jin Young Kim

Firat Guder

Systems and methods for providing flexible robotic actuators are disclosed. Some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter include a soft robot capable of providing a radial deflection motions; a soft tentacle actuator capable of providing a variety of motions and providing transportation means for various types of materials; and a hybrid robotic system that retains desirable characteristics of both soft robots and hard robots. Some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter also include methods for operating the disclosed robotic systems.

Flexible robotic actuators

A soft robot having an integrated electrical component includes an expandable or collapsible body, the body comprising an inlet that is configured to communicate with a fluid source and a flexible strain limited layer secured to a portion of the expandable or collapsible body, wherein the strain limited layer includes at least one electrical component.

Flexible and stretchable electronic strain-limited layer for soft actuators

A soft robotic device with one or more sensors is described. The sensor may be embedded in the soft body of the soft robotic device, attached to the soft body of the soft robotic device, or otherwise linked to the soft body of the soft robotic device.

Sensors for soft robots and soft actuators

A soft robotic device includes a flexible body having a width, a length and a thickness, wherein the thickness is at least 1 mm, the flexible body having at least one channel disposed within the flexible body, the channel defined by upper, lower and side walls, wherein at least one wall is strain limiting; and a pressurizing inlet in fluid communication with the at least one channel, the at least one channel positioned and arranged such that the wall opposite the strain limiting wall preferentially expands when the soft robotic device is pressurized through the inlet.

Soft robotic actuators

Exemplary method and system for providing a diffractive configuration in an optical arrangement are provided. For example, a material can be provided with at least one patterned surface having a very high aspect ratio. The material can be connected with at least one portion of a waveguide arrangement using a pre-polymer adhesive composition. Further, the pre-polymer adhesive composition can be caused to polymerize so as to form the diffractive configuration which at least approximately replicates a structure or at least one feature of the patterned surface.

System and method for fabrication of miniature endoscope using nanoimprint lithography

Soft pneumatic actuators based on composites consisting of elastomers with embedded sheet or fiber structures (e.g., paper or fabric) that are flexible but not extensible are described. On pneumatic inflation, these actuators move anisotropically, based on the motions accessible by their composite structures. They are inexpensive, simple to fabricate, light in weight, and easy to actuate. This class of structure is versatile: the same principles of design lead to actuators that respond to pressurization with a wide range of motions (bending, extension, contraction, twisting, and others). Paper, when used to introduce anisotropy into elastomers, can be readily folded into three-dimensional structures following the principles of origami; these folded structures increase the stiffness and anisotropy of the elastomeric actuators, while keeping them light in weight.

Apparatus, system, and method for providing fabric-elastomer composites as pneumatic actuators

A photodetector is provided that includes a FET structure with a channel structure having one or more nanowire structures. Noble metal nanoparticles are positioned on the channel structure so as to produce a functionalized channel structure. The functionalized channel structure exhibits pronounced surface plasmon resonance (SPR) absorption near the SPR frequency of the noble metal nanoparticles.

Ultrafast and ultrasensitive novel photodetectors

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