Hari Prakash Thanabalan, Lars Bengtsson, Ugo Lafont, Giovanni Volpe
SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA, 3-7 August 2025
Date: 5th August 2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM
Place: Conv. Ctr. Room 4
Soft robotics are the forefront of robotics evolution that leverages compliant materials such as silicone elastomer to mimic biological organisms. With infinite degrees of freedom, soft robots surpass rigid robots in adaptability making them ideal for exploration and manipulation tasks. Here we focus on inchworm inspired soft robot achieving multidirectional locomotion through groove-guided movement. By manipulating the groove angles on a substrate, we demonstrate multidirectional locomotion by utilising only a single actuator.