Chasing biomimetic locomotion speeds: Creating untethered soft robots with shape memory alloy actuators

X Huang, K Kumar, MK Jawed, AM Nasab, Z Ye… - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
Chasing biomimetic locomotion speeds: Creating untethered soft robots with shape memory
alloy actuators | Science Robotics news careers commentary Journals Science Science brought …

Dimension‐based design of melt electrowritten scaffolds

A Hrynevich, BŞ Elçi, JN Haigh, R McMaster, A Youssef… - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The electrohydrodynamic stabilization of direct‐written fluid jets is explored to design and
manufacture tissue engineering scaffolds based on their desired fiber dimensions. It is …

Dynamic simulation of articulated soft robots

W Huang, X Huang, C Majidi, MK Jawed - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Soft robots are primarily composed of soft materials that can allow for mechanically robust
maneuvers that are not typically possible with conventional rigid robotic systems. However …

Highly dynamic shape memory alloy actuator for fast moving soft robots

X Huang, K Kumar, MK Jawed… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are popular as actuators for soft bioinspired robots because
they are naturally compliant, have high work density, and can be operated using …

A perspective on the revival of structural (in) stability with novel opportunities for function: from buckliphobia to buckliphilia

PM Reis - Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Buckling of slender structures is traditionally regarded as a first route toward failure. Here,
we provide an alternative perspective on a burgeoning movement where mechanical …

Fabrication, control, and modeling of robots inspired by flagella and cilia

S Lim, Y Du, Y Lee, SK Panda, D Tong… - Bioinspiration & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Flagella and cilia are slender structures that serve important functionalities in the
microscopic world through their locomotion induced by fluid and structure interaction. With …

Genetic defects in β-spectrin and tau sensitize C. elegans axons to movement-induced damage via torque-tension coupling

M Krieg, J Stühmer, JG Cueva, R Fetter, K Spilker… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Our bodies are in constant motion and so are the neurons that invade each tissue. Motion-
induced neuron deformation and damage are associated with several neurodegenerative …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of heterogeneous scaffolds using melt electrospinning writing: Design and optimization

Y **, Q Gao, C **e, G Li, J Du, J Fu, Y He - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Melt electrospinning writing (MEW) has recently emerged as a direct three-dimensional (3D)
writing approach for the fabrication of orderly porous structures with well-defined …

Form finding in elastic gridshells

C Baek, AO Sageman-Furnas, MK Jawed… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Elastic gridshells comprise an initially planar network of elastic rods that are actuated into a
shell-like structure by loading their extremities. The resulting actuated form derives from the …

Nonlinear dynamic modeling of a tether-net system for space debris capture

W Huang, D He, Y Li, D Zhang, H Zou, H Liu… - Nonlinear …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, a flexible tether-net system is applied to capture the space debris and a
numerical framework is established to explore its nonlinear dynamic behaviors, which …