It’s published! For several months in college I worked with Professor Hod Lipson’s Creative Machines Lab on building a “soft actuator”. The goal was to build an electrically-powered “muscle” geometry out of silicone; our approach was to drive contraction and expansion thermally.
Improving the Actuation Characteristics of Silicone/Ethanol Soft Actuators is now published in MDPI thanks to:
- Boxi Xia
- Aslan Miriyev
- Cesar Trujillo
- Mark Cartolano
- Shivani Vartak
- and of course, Prof. Lipson