A Doctoral Candidate of our consortium, Jawad Mehmood Butt (SDU) has recently demonstrated his newly developed magnetic soft robot locomotion system to Professor Simon Sponberg from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
The magnetic soft robot exploits its dome-shaped polystable structure to perform versatile locomotion through multiple distinct kinematic states when actuated by a simple single-translating magnet setup.
Professor Sponberg is fascinated by how to scale these magnetic structures for dynamic robot locomotion—an area that is already a focus of our research at Embodied AI and Neurorobotics Lab , SDU Biorobotics .
Professor Sponberg’s visit aimed to establish potential collaborations between Georgia Tech and SDU within the fields of comparative biomechanics, biorobotics, and magnetoactive soft robotics.
A close-up of the soft robot prototype performing between locomotion modes driven by a simple magnetic control setup.
