Author: ihagai@andrew.cmu.edu

Inbar: This week I attempted the full robot fabrication again. I was successful in creating the divided molds parts and then glueing them together – After that, I tried casting the silicone and bonding the top and bottom. Unfortunately, non of the parts in the model I cast inflates properly – it seems like air
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This week we attempted to use a fabric stiffening technique in order to increase stiffness and allow for more curvature. We followed the technique that can be viewed in this video – https://youtu.be/TyYW9BmMeSs We both made changes to our existing parts molds and then attempted casting, incorporating the fabric. Results Jason: For this iteration, I
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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GBHBrkWJuy-W_8jqxPoALqsAxNbfZ7rP?usp=sharing Deliverables: The part that was cast using Mold C appeared to be inflating well, but had air leakage in two locations oh its bottom face since the thickness of that part was only 1 mm and the cavities edges were very close to the face. I was successful in repairing these air leakages by
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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lXZC0jXFqHUcwTRBt4BTCpzW25xArAEf?usp=sharing Changes made: Cut-Extrude for tube corrected to the right size. Part’s height slightly reduced. Air slits along the part slightly changed in locations and enlarged in width. Number of slits slightly reduced. The main source of reference – https://cargocollective.com/bohanh/Soft-robot-Design-and-Fabrication Deliverables: mold B was never printed – the learning process of parametric design resulted in
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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ijHIED8CNJ9FfdkBbqrIzI4GYghBzDBK?usp=sharing Deliverables: Mold A had a few design errors: The size of the inlet tube to the part was too small. The number of cavities along the part was too large. Additionally, the bonding of the top and bottom of the silicone part was not successful in one of the edges. I was able to
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Creative Requirements Essential movements: The minimum requirement is the ability to move forward in one direction. The ideal requirement is the ability to move forward and change the direction of movement while moving. Tempo, pace, or speed for each movement: Spees of movement should be relatively slow (although, the speed of movement is less essential,
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In 2020 I’ve started a video project that documents my consistent but hopeless attempts to restore my castrated rabbit’s libido. So far, the project included interviews with veterinarians and zoologists and the creation of a sculptural sex doll for the rabbit. My plans for the video are to document two more steps in this bizarre
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Artwork: Zoodram 4 by Pierre Huyghe (2011) https://www.artsy.net/artwork/pierre-huyghe-zoodram-4 Huyghe let (or manipulate) a hermit crab make his home inside Brâncuși’s 1910 sculpture, Sleeping Muse, thus creating a poetic living ocean ecosystem in a glass aquarium. Context/questions/discourse of existing work The tension between the human and the non-human, the borders between fiction and reality, between make-believe and the
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1. I googled “eflux soft robot” (e-flux is a leading online art publication platform), and one of the first results was this – https://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8443/ws/portalfiles/portal/173378022/PhD_Thesis_Final_Version_Jonas_J_rgensen.pdf “Constructing Soft Robot Aesthetics:Art, Sensation, and Materiality in Practice” PhD thesis, Submitted to the IT University of Copenhagen, May 16 2019 by Jonas Jørgensen I only skimmed through it, seems super relevant.
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Source paper: An untethered jumping soft robot M. T. Tolley et al., “An untethered jumping soft robot,” 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014, pp. 561-566, doi: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942615. The paper describes the development and fabrication of a jumping soft robot, which constitutes a breakthrough since locomoting soft robots typically walk or crawl
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