3D printing for gel robotics

Kazunari Yoshida; Yuki Takishima; Yuta Hara; Masaru Kawakami; Hidemitsu Furukawa

doi:10.1117/12.2317857

23 March 2018 3D printing for gel robotics

Kazunari Yoshida, Yuki Takishima, Yuta Hara, Masaru Kawakami, Hidemitsu Furukawa

Proceedings Volume 10597, Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors, and 3D Systems II; 1059717 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2317857
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2018, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

Yamagata University established the Soft-Matter Robotics Consortium (SOFUMO) to study the extreme parts of robots and to construct epoch-making soft robots using such extreme parts. As a part of such effort, we study a gel piezoelectric sensor and construct a jellyfish-like robot using gel materials such as ion gel, composed of polymer network and ionic liquid, and shape memory gel. We revealed that the ion gel is more appropriate for pressure sensor that particle-doublenetwork hydrogel since impedance of ion gel is changed by application of load weights. In addition, the jellyfish-like robot was constructed using hydrogel and shrinkable wire using electric power. These techniques are expected to be applied to epoch-making soft-matter robots.

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Kazunari Yoshida, Yuki Takishima, Yuta Hara, Masaru Kawakami, and Hidemitsu Furukawa "3D printing for gel robotics", Proc. SPIE 10597, Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors, and 3D Systems II, 1059717 (23 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2317857

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