Soft Robotic Manipulation and Locomotion with a 3D Printed Electroactive Hydrogel

Daehoon Han; Cindy Farino; Chen Yang; Tracy Scott; Daniel Browe; Wonjoon Choi; Joseph W. Freeman; Howon Lee

doi:10.1021/acsami.8b04250

Soft Robotic Manipulation and Locomotion with a 3D Printed Electroactive Hydrogel

Daehoon Han
, Cindy Farino
, Chen Yang
, Tracy Scott
, Daniel Browe
, Wonjoon Choi
, Joseph W. Freeman
, Howon Lee^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Mechanical Engineering

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Abstract

Electroactive hydrogels (EAH) that exhibit large deformation in response to an electric field have received great attention as a potential actuating material for soft robots and artificial muscle. However, their application has been limited due to the use of traditional two-dimensional (2D) fabrication methods. Here we present soft robotic manipulation and locomotion with 3D printed EAH microstructures. Through 3D design and precise dimensional control enabled by a digital light processing (DLP) based micro 3D printing technique, complex 3D actuations of EAH are achieved. We demonstrate soft robotic actuations including gripping and transporting an object and a bidirectional locomotion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17512-17518
Number of pages	7
Journal	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume	10
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b04250
Publication status	Published - 2018 May 30

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Keywords

3D printing
electroactive hydrogel
projection microstereolithography
soft actuator
soft robotics

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