软体机器人

 ,"We leveraged ¹¹ additive ¹² manufacturing to holistically ¹³ create, in one uninterrupted 3D printing session, a single body fabricated with nine sequential layers of material, increasing in stiffness from rigid to soft towards the outer body," said the study's co-senior author Robert Wood, Ph.D, who is a Core Faculty ¹⁴ member and co-leader of the Bioinspired Robotics Platform at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, the Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied ¹⁵ Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Founder ¹⁶ of the Harvard Microrobotics Lab. "By employing a gradient material strategy, we have greatly reduced stress concentrations typically found at the interfaces ¹⁷ of soft and rigid components which has resulted in an extremely durable ¹⁸ robot."