Kirigami (Paper-Cutting) x Soft Robots

Here we demonstrated how the ancient art of paper cutting can be used to inspire interesting soft actuator designs for a range of soft robotics capabilities from gripper and manipulator applications, to crawling and flipping robots.
Kirigami-Inspired 3D Printable Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Multiple Deformation Modes for Soft Robotic Applications.
Published in Soft Robotics 2023
doi.org/10.1089...

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so clever!

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