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Multi‐Layer LDPE Pouch Robots Enabled by Inkjet‐Printed Masking Layers (Adv. Mater. Technol. 3/2025)

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: LDPE Pouch Robots In article number 2401052, Yifan You, Ronald S. Fearing, and co-workers create soft inflatable pouch robots with many independent degrees of freedom from multiple layers of 38 micron thermoplastic films. This new fabrication method uses inkjet-printed solvent ink to pattern pouch layers, enabling the integration of pouch actuators, structures, channels, and pneumatic ports within one process. Application examples include a 4-finger 8-independent-DoF pouch hand performing in-hand manipulation, and a 10-independent-DoF continuum manipulator performing planar pick-and-place.

Source: Advanced Materials Technologies

DOI: 10.1002/admt.202570013

Authors: Yifan You, Chen Dai, Ezequiel Goldschmidt, Ronald S. Fearing

Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Francisco, University of California San Francisco Medical Center

Language: English

Topic: Soft Robotics and Applications

Subfield: Biomedical Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4407181569

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