Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots optically and sonically camouflaged in water

oleh: Hyunwoo Yuk, Shaoting Lin, Chu Ma, Mahdi Takaffoli, Nicolas X. Fang, Xuanhe Zhao

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2017-02-01

Deskripsi

Hydrogel actuators have been widely developed to be osmotic-driven but many are in fact only capable of producing low forces. Here, the authors developed high speed and high force hydrogel actuators capable of camouflage optically and sonically with low fatigue over multiple cycles.