An exploration of soft robotics research and art.
Elise Chapman and Leah Walko Project Objectives: To imitate a living organism that reacts to human touch/proximity by way of group movement. The organism reactions should feel organic and unpredictable, engaging the audience. Reflection on the Creative Design Opportunities: We embraced the use of silicon, pneumatic actuation, and capacitive touch sensing to create a feeling
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This week, we both suffered from booth, meaning that we couldn’t progress outside of class. However besides that, we made great progress this week and we’re quite happy about where we are overall. Monday, 4.10: Wednesday, 4.12 Monday, 4.17: Tuesday, 4.18:
This week we made some important progress! As soon as we can figure out how to overcome an air-tight / air-flow problem, we should have a fully functioning individual prototype. From there, we can move forward into scaling! That will pose new problems of triggering inflation as related to what tentacle is being sensed, but
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This week we were tragically pretty busy, but still managed to get some important progress done! Most notably, we were able to sync tested our first version of our silicon anemone and we made progress on programming and circuiting the electronics. We originally planned to print our newest version of the mold, but since the
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This week was set to be some background work for more work to come, so we focused on planning ahead, researching, and prototyping. More specifically, we looked to creating a semester schedule, designing a new mold, and casting our previously-made four-part mode. Monday, 3.13: Wednesday, 3.15: Thursday, 3.16: Moving Forward:
Elise Chapman and Leah Walko Project Proposal A sea anemone style of creature, responsive to human touch. Sketches + Rough Prototypes Sense of Movement If possible, we would like to actuate the celiaci to move towards the user’s touch/hand, but we understand that that is difficult and potentially out of scope. Otherwise, we plan to
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My inspiration for this mold is a single piece of a sea anemone. My original goal for this mold was to create a cylindrical shape with a rounded top, but upon reflection, I realized that I needed a flat side to my mold, otherwise it would not cast properly. I had a few troubles when
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While Nothing Happens by Ernesto Neto In this installation piece suspended from the ceiling, lycra netting sacs contain spices, including pepper, cumin, cloves, ginger and curcuma, creating shapes similar almost to stalactites. These aromatic sacs combined with the soft material nature of the lycra invites the viewer to become participants and to touch the sacs.
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Skulturen, Klaus Pinter https://domaine-chaumont.fr/en/centre-arts-and-nature/archives/2013-art-season/klaus-pinter Makes very large scale, inflated installations, however they are not kinetic. They’re interesting for their size and shape, and personally I find them intriguing for their potential transference into movement. Adaptive Pneumatic Shelters, Hani Fallaha http://www.achimmenges.net/?p=4401 These pneumatic shelters are more of an architecture piece than sculpture, but similar to Klaus
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Peer Review Paper: D. Zhou, Y. Fu, J. Deng, J. Sun and Y. Liu, “A Bistable Jumping Robot with Pure Soft Body Actuated by Twisted Artificial Muscle,” 2021 27th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), Shanghai, China, 2021, pp. 388-393, doi: 10.1109/M2VIP49856.2021.9665013. Do you have any conflict of interest in reviewing this
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