W12. SOFT ROBOTICS

Gently embrassing the end of Fabricacademy workshops with Soft Robotics experiments. Bruna Coveia da Rocha recitations_Lily Chambers & Adriena Cabrera tutorials.

Chemically actuated Full body soft robot Octobot_Wyss Institute for bio Inspiration Engineerying August 2015 Lori Sanders/ Harvard University

CHECK LIST

• ->Document the concept

• ->Make a soft robotic, develop the pattern for the Inflatable and draw a sketch of the air flow:

• build a Soft Gripper

• ->Desing your own version of an inflatable

• ->Experiment with different materials
• ->Make a small video of your inflatable

CRAZY SOFT ROBOTICS

Scientific

Emotional

TUTOS

INSPI

• Bruna Goveia Da Rocha

• Clara Davis_Biobased inflatabes_Fabtextiles2018

MAKING INFLATABLES

HOW TO MAKE IT?

1ST TRY

Looking for material mix Leather/Vinyl

MAKE A SOFT GRIPPER_in process

WEIRD COMPOSITE_tests_in process

• Like the mix of material: silicon/leather
• Like the weird pattern -> Look for movement: top to bottom -> Inflate fom inside to out

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Last update: 2021-12-14