{"id":1298,"date":"2019-10-12T14:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.futuretechnology500.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2019-10-12T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T21:30:47","slug":"caltech-3d-and-harvard-prints-self-folding-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuretechnology500.com\/index.php\/robotics\/caltech-3d-and-harvard-prints-self-folding-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Caltech 3D and Harvard Prints Self-Folding Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world of robotics is a rapidly growing and expanding. It\u2019s becoming more and more important to the way that we do business and how we work as a species, too. For many of us, though, keeping up to date with the changes and innovations within the industry can be tough work. However, one of the most interesting innovations in recent times appears to have come from Caltech 3D and Harvard. Together, they appear to have printed a series of self-folding robots.<\/p>\n

This interesting new origami-inspired robot design is going to become very important in the near future. Capable of dealing with very particular configurations and settings, they could be adjusted for a whole variety of purposes on-demand. Known as the \u201cRollbot\u201d, these devices will be used to achieve a great many changes. They\u2019ll be able to assemble into a pentagonal prism shape, and will be capable of a self-rolling mechanism in response to its own stimuli.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s very impressive, and shows a fine example of how this kind of technology could be used in the future. They could become very important in the development of untethered robots that could be useful in both medicine and engineering. How so?<\/p>\n

The co-first author of the paper, Connor McMahan, said: \u201cMany existing soft robots require a tether to external power and control systems or are limited by the amount of force they can exert. These active hinges are useful because they allow soft robots to operate in environments where tethers are impractical and to lift objects many times heavier than the hinges.\u201d<\/p>\n

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