Chris Larson1, Bryan Peele1, Shuo Li2, Sanlin S. Robinson2, Massimo Totaro3, Lucia Beccai3, Barbara Mazzolai3, Robert F. Shepherd2,1
1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA
2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
3Center for Micro-BioRobotics@SSSA, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, I-56025 Pontedera, Italy.
Tóm tắt
Make it stretch, make it glow
The skins of some cephalopods, such as the octopus, are highly flexible and contain color-changing cells. These cells are loaded with pigments that enable rapid and detailed camouflaging abilities. Larson
et al.
developed a stretchable electroluminescent actuator. The material could be highly stretched, could emit light, and could also sense internal and external pressure. A soft robot demonstrated these combined capabilities by stretching and emitting light as it moved.
Science
, this issue p.
1071
