My project idea consists of creating a spider/alien creature with an odd number of appendages. The creature would have dark colors, possibly black to mimic the Alien Xenomorphs. The intentions behind this project would be to explore how people interact/perceive an unusual “organism”. The design would consist of a central soft valve where most of the creature’s body would be. The soft valve would connect to thin and long or thick and short legs that would be pneumatically actuated.
Art/Design
Technical Research Paper
Jones, T.J., Jambon-Puillet, E., Marthelot, J. et al. Bubble casting soft robotics. Nature 599, 229–233 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04029-6
Zou, JiaKang, MengKe Yang, and GuoQing Jin. “A Five-Way Directional Soft Valve with a Case Study: A Starfish like Soft Robot.” In 2020 5th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE), 130–34, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/CACRE50138.2020.9230177.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/beyond-the-metal-investigating-soft-robots-at-nasa-langley