New Bending Actuator for Soft Robots

This is the video presentation for the paper below. We developed a new mechanical bending actuator for soft robots. The actuator is 3D printable from standard (non-soft) materials, and is based on concentric precurved bellows. J. A. Childs and C. Rucker, "Concentric Precurved Bellows: New Bending Actuators for Soft Robots," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1215-1222, April 2020, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2967323. For related work, see our lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/reach-r...