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The Development of Bow. Project Overview: Bow. is an interactive silicone robotic display. The display utilizes a camera to detect a user’s hand (wave) and, when a hand is present, reacts to the user. The display’s reaction is a mix between a wave and a bow. Project Objectives: The objective of our project was to
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It seems that the design of the hinge solves the problem of power distribution to some extent. The next plan is to optimize the silicone part so that it has less bulge at the top. A better solution, for now, would be to thicken the top and bottom and then reduce the thickness of the
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This week we attempt to use two different designs to solve the problems that arose last week. The first design is a hard ABS with a hinge structure. As you can see in the screenshot, the gray part is the ABS rigid tissue and the blue part is the silicone and the air hose. There
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Unfortunately, this first version of the model did not work well. You can see that the silicone bends at an angle of only 10-15 degrees. This is far below our expectations. Another problem is the “balloon”. Also this week we tried to cast the wire in silicone and tried to connect to a power source
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We all live in stories and imaginary landscapes superimposed on the real. We use these objects to communicate who we are. By choosing the objects we own and desire, we create fictional worlds in which to live and extend our identities into countless new environments. The artist wanted to incorporate machines and kinetics into the
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Another Generosity, designed 2018 by Eero Lundén, Ron Aasholm, and Carmen Lee of Lundén Architecture Company, in collaboration with Bergent, BuroHappold Engineering, and Aalto University (Courtesy of the designers) This is one of the pieces from an exhibition I found while visiting the Philadelphia Museum in 2018. The name of the exhibition is “design for
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Peer review paper:  Trung Thien Hoang, Luke Sy, Mattia Bussu, Mai Thanh Thai, Harrison Low, Phuoc Thien Phan, James Davies, Chi Cong Nguyen, Nigel H. Lovell, and Thanh Nho Do. A Wearable Soft Fabric Sleeve for Upper Limb Augmentation. Sensors, 21(22):7638, January 2021. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/22/7638 1. Do you have any conflict of interest in reviewing this
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I start with Automatic Design and Manufacture of Soft Robots. I found the article, Automatic Design of Soft Dielectric Elastomer Actuators With Optimal Spatial Electric Fields, in the citation section and I took it as my root. I browsed through some more related articles, all of which had one thing in common and that was
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1. Closed structure soft robotic gripper Pedro P.; Ananda C.; Rafael P.B.; Carlos A.R.; Alexandre B.C. Closed structure soft robotic gripper. IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, July 2018. doi:10.1177/0278364914543793. 2. Bubble casting soft robotics Trevor J. Jones, Etienne Jambon-Puillet, Joel Marthelot, and P.-T. Brun. Bubble casting soft robotics. Nature, 599(7884):229–233, November 2021. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04029-6. 3. Bioinspired locomotion and grasping
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