Solitions 1 (IMAGE)

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Solitions 1

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The robotic metamaterial with a soliton and anti-soliton lying at the boundaries between left- and right-leaning sections of the chain. Each blue rod is connected to its neighbours with pink elastic bands, and a little motor under each rod makes the interactions between neighbouring rods non-reciprocal. Image credit: Jonas Veenstra.

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