To overcome these aforementioned challenges, this paper introduces a new class of fluid-driven smart textiles formed from our recently soft artificial muscle fibers (AMFs)49,50,51. The AMFs are highly flexible, scalable with sizes that can be scaled down to 0.8 mm in diameter, long length (a...
The novel fluid-driven mechanism carries out the motion of the spinal skeleton. The origami-inspired skeleton is capable of imitating the movement of the real backbone. Under negative pressure, the skeleton constructs correct spine curvature. The algorithm inside the microcontroller processes data from...
Based on the design of artificial superhydrophobic materials and also inspired by the self-ascending phenomenon, in 2015, Liu et al. presented a superhydrophobic mesh that enables spontaneous and continuous water transport in the antigravity direction. Driven only by the surface energy released when a...