Untethered Miniature Soft Robots: Materials, Fabrications, and Applications

Untethered Miniature Soft Robots is a comprehensive reference that provides detailed information on the materials, fabrication, and applications of miniature soft robots. It covers various functional materials, fabrication strategies, and functionalities of soft robots, including magnetically, thermally, optically, and chemically actuated ones. The book explores specific applications of miniature soft robots in biomedical, environmental, and electrical fields. It also discusses the development of miniature soft robots based on soft matter, fabrication strategies, locomotion principles, sensing and actuation mechanisms. The text highlights the opportunities and challenges faced by the field and offers expert insight into its potential futures. Written by four highly qualified academics, the book serves as an invaluable resource for researchers working in this promising area.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 29 November 2023
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH

Untethered Miniature Soft Robots: Materials, Fabrications, and Applications delves into the realm of miniature soft robots, providing a comprehensive reference for achieving contactless manipulation. This book explores high-level concepts, perspectives, and technical skills associated with soft robots, shedding light on their rapid development. It introduces various functional materials used in the construction of miniature soft robots, including silicone elastomer, carbon-based materials, hydrogels, liquid crystal polymer, flexible ferrofluid, and liquid metal. Each material is examined in detail, covering its properties, fabrication strategies, and functionalities within soft robots, along with the underlying mechanisms that drive their behavior.

The book delves into the realm of magnetically, thermally, optically, and chemically actuated soft robots, offering in-depth insights into their applications. It explores the diverse fields of biomedical, environmental, and electrical applications where miniature soft robots find significant use. Furthermore, the book summarizes the advancements in miniature soft robots based on soft matter, fabrication strategies, locomotion principles, sensing, and actuation mechanisms.

In conclusion, the text provides a comprehensive summary of the opportunities and challenges faced by miniature soft robots. Written by four highly qualified academics, Untethered Miniature Soft Robots covers a range of sample topics, including soft elastomer-based robots with programmable magnetization profiles, untethered soft robots based on template-aiding, working mechanisms of carbon-based materials, designing microscale building blocks, modular assembly of building blocks based on Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) matrix, and inverse and forward design of modular morphing systems. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, and students interested in the field of miniature soft robots, offering expert insight into their potential futures.

Weight: 652g
Dimension: 244 x 170 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783527351770