Harvard College

Won Jae Choi

George M Whitesides

Robert F Shepherd

Xin Chen

Stephen A Morin

Ramses V Martinez

Adam Stokes

Filip Ilievski

Sen Wai Kwok

Aaron D Mazzeo

Zhihong Nie

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

Growing community of inventors

Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Won Jae Choi