Introduction: The paper considers the improved design of the wheeled vibration-driven robot
equipped with an inertial exciter (unbalanced rotor) and enhanced pantograph-type …

Smart materials such as magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs) combine elastic and magnetic
properties that can be significantly changed in response to a magnetic field and therefore …

This works presents the theoretical analysis and experimental observations of the
bidirectional motion of a millimeter-scale bristle robot (milli-bristlebot) with an on-board …

We present a smart robot structure that exploits anisotropic friction to achieve stick-slip
locomotion. The robot is made out of three components: a plastic beam, a planar dielectric …

Widespread demand for mobile robots is pushing the research envelope for the
development of new robot driving mechanisms that can handle diverse environments. Bristle …

Microrobots are effective for monitoring infrastructure in narrow spaces. However, they have
limited computing power, and most of them are not wireless and stable enough for …

We present a locomotion mechanism that uses the stick-slip transition of a soft passive
structure with an internal mechanical resonance. The structure is harmonically driven by a …

Passive vibration-driven robots need to achieve relatively high speeds from external
vibrations to address practical demand. However, common vibration situations, such as …

This work presents micro-scale bristle robots, with the size of 233 μm× 113 μm× 75 μm,
having five bristles on the top and bottom sides of the robot body. The bristles are tilted 60° …

This paper presents the bio-mimetic design approach, the dynamic model, and potential
applications for a hybrid soft actuator. The proposed hybrid soft actuator consists of two main …