MechResCon2023: For soft robots, a new liquid metal droplet electronic device
Soft robots have many advantages, including diverse movement patterns, amicable human engagement, and adaptable actuation strategies. However, the absence of suitable practical techniques and soft controllers makes the production of a fully integrated flexible robot still quite challenging. Using the locomotion and deformation behaviour of liquid metals (LMs) through the electrical stimulus , a team of researchers led by Prof. Jing Liu from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed and demonstrated a new type of liquid metal droplet electronic device. To do logical computing, the gadget could be further organised into gate logics. The study initially showed the importance of liquid metals in intelligent electronic control systems when it was published on March 18th, 2021 in Advanced Intelligent Systems . It also provides a fresh method for creating soft electronic gadgets. Liquid metal is a novel class of smart m...