image: Electrically controlled, untethered soft robot built out of four soft tubular actuators, a microcontroller and battery. The robot can be programmed to walk or carry an object. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 11th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Q. He at University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Electrically controlled liquid crystal elastomer-based soft tubular actuator with multimodal actuation." view more
Credit: [Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering]