Engineering and Technology

Multimodal locomotion ultra-thin soft robots for exploration of narrow spaces

X. Wang, S. Li, et al.

Introducing Thin Soft Robots (TS-Robots), just 1.7 mm thick, these incredible machines can traverse narrow spaces and adapt to various environments, including solid, liquid, and aerial domains. With their unique actuation and high performance, they exhibit impressive locomotion capabilities, crawling, climbing, and swimming with ease. This groundbreaking research was conducted by Xi Wang, Siqian Li, Jung-Che Chang, Jing Liu, Dragos Axinte, and Xin Dong.