Day 2: (Mon Jan 24, Week 2) Soft Robotics Overview

Notes for 2022-01-24.

New Assignments

New assignment, due by Wed class: Exercise: Lateral Literature Search.

Administrative

• Related panel discussion Wednesday 4-5PM: “Softbotics, Building Robotics for Everyday Life”. Register by tomorrow for Zoom link.

• Please don’t forget to fill out the S22 Office Hours Poll.

Agenda

1. Discussion of Rus and Tolley 2015 survey paper [R62].

   • Quick introduction and walkthrough.

   • Non-Glossary

   • What was especially confusing?

   • What unfamiliar terminology did you write down?

2. Review of the first exercise blog posts.

3. Mid-class break.

4. Breakout session. Let’s consider human applications of soft rubbery robots. This is intended to be an imaginative exercise, so no holds barred.

   1. We’ll break out into random groups of two or three.

   2. Please say hello, introduce yourselves.

   3. Brainstorm three or so project ideas.

   4. Please decide on a spokeperson to report back to the whole class afterward.

5. Lateral search demo (related to next exercise):

   1. We’ll pick a paper for which we want to find similar, newer work.

      Jennifer Frame, Nick Lopez, Oscar Curet, and Erik D. Engeberg. Thrust force characterization of free-swimming soft robotic jellyfish. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 2018, doi:10.1088/1748-3190/aadcb3 [R17].

   2. Choose a root paper from its references: this is going backward in time to find earlier work.

      Villanueva A, Smith C and Priya S, 2011. A biomimetic robotic jellyfish (robojelly) actuated by shape memory alloy composite actuators. Bioinspir. Biomimet. 6 DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/6/3/036004.

   3. Look it up at Web of Science to examine its Citations list: this is going forward in time to find new work. This list could potentially grow each passing year.