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Ninety Six is an installation piece by Nils Völker that consists of 96 garbage bags, each with an independently controlled set of fans underneath. The bags inflate and deflate to create rhythmic patterns and undulations across the piece. From a distance, the piece starts to look like a single, living thing. The grid-like structure and
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Paper: Ruojia Sun, Ryosuke Onose, Margaret Dunne, Andrea Ling, Amanda Denham, and Hsin-Liu (Cindy) Kao. 2020. Weaving a Second Skin: Exploring Opportunities for Crafting On-Skin Interfaces Through Weaving. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 365–377. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395548  Do you have any conflict of interest in
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D. Q. Nguyen, V. A. Ho. Kinematic Evaluation of a Series of Soft Actuators in Designing an Eel-inspired Robot. 2020 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII). Pages 1288-1293. January 2020. doi: 10.1109/SII46433.2020.9025926. I have no conflicts of interest with regards to this paper or the research it discusses. I would identify myself as having
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I found the root paper, Printed paper actuator: a low-cost reversible actuation and sensing method for shape changing interfaces, in the course bibliography. I am most interested in its usage of accessible material (paper), and the characteristic of reversible and electrical actuation. It is a conference paper from Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference, so
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I started with the “GoQBot” article (1) from my previous post. Finding it on the CMU Library website, I clicked the link to view papers cited in it. I found a brief article called “Caterpillar Kinematics” (2), which describes the evasive rolling maneuver caterpillars are capable of doing. This movement was the biological inspiration for
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This paper presents a paper actuator produced with 3D printing single layer conductive Polylactide (PLA) on copy paper. The technology is designed as a low cost and easily accessible method for achieving reversible and electrical actuation. Guanyun Wang, Tingyu Cheng, Youngwook Do, Humphrey Yang, Ye Tao, Jianzhe Gu, Byoungkwon An, and Lining Yao. Printed paper
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GoQBot is a soft-bodied robot that mimics the evasive rolling maneuver observed in many caterpillar species; this maneuver is capable of generating an immense amount of force for a short amount of time. Huai-Ti Lin, Gary G. Leisk, Barry Trimmer. GoQBot: A Caterpillar-Inspired Soft-Bodied Rolling Robot. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Volume 6, Issue 2. Pages 026007.
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This paper proposes a way for fast and reversible movement for reconfigurable structure through a 3D shape shifting system. It uses shape memory alloy wire actuators to transform and morph multiple origami blocks into diverse shapes. @article{kim_morphing_2020,title = {Morphing Origami Block for Lightweight Reconfigurable System},issn = {1941-0468},doi = {10.1109/TRO.2020.3031248},abstract = {Origami provides a unique tool
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“A Soft Robotic Tongue–Mechatronic Design and Surface Reconstruction” (Lu, Xu, Li) presents a actuated device mimicking a tongue. I was interested in this article because of the range of complex surface deformations the authors were able to accomplish with just six pressure-controlled air chambers. @ARTICLE{ 8025393, author={ X. {Lu} and W. {Xu} and X. {Li}
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