Pulse-driven robot: Motion via solitary waves

Abstract

Nonlinear waves can be harnessed to make flexible structures crawl.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
May 01, 2020
Source ID
10.1126/sciadv.aaz1166

Entities

People

  • Bolei Deng
  • Donglai Wei
  • Katia Bertoldi
  • Liyuan Chen
  • Vincent Tournat

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • Harvard University
  • National Science Foundation
  • Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Tags

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy