A bioinspired soft actuated material
Publication information:
Roche E, Wohlfarth R, Overvelde JT, Vasilyev N, Pigula F, Mooney D, Bertoldi K, Walsh C. A bioinspired soft actuated material. Adv Mater. 2014;26(8):1200–6. doi:10.1002/adma.201304018
Abstract
A class of soft actuated materials that can achieve lifelike motion is presented. By embedding pneumatic actuators in a soft material inspired by a biological muscle fibril architecture, and developing a simple finite element simulation of the same, tunable biomimetic motion can be achieved with fully soft structures, exemplified here by an active left ventricle simulator.