Programming soft robots with flexible mechanical metamaterials
- 10 April 2019
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science Robotics
- Vol. 4 (29), eaav7874
- https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aav7874
Abstract
The complex behavior of highly deformable mechanical metamaterials can substantially enhance the performance of soft robots.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (1830896)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (BSCGI0_157696)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (P3P3P2_174326)
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