Microscale Soft Robotics Motivations, Progress, and Outlook
This book presents the technological basics and applications of small-scale (mm to sub-mm in length-scales) soft robots and devices, written for researchers in both academia and industry. Author Jaeyoun Kim presents technological motivations, enabling fac
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Jaeyoun (Jay) Kim
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Jaeyoun (Jay) Kim
Microscale Soft Robotics Motivations, Progress, and Outlook
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Jaeyoun (Jay) Kim Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University Ames, IA, USA
ISSN 2191-530X ISSN 2191-5318 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology ISBN 978-3-319-50285-4 ISBN 978-3-319-50286-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50286-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016959765 © The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
This book is dedicated to my mother for her ceaseless encouragement.
Preface
No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an old garment. For then the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn’t even match the old garment. Luke 5:36
This book was originally intended to be a very brief survey of the history and progress of microscale soft robotics, a rapidly evolving subfield of robotics. To the author’s dismay, the task of tracking the subfield’s technological origin and enabling factors has rapidly become an overwhelming one due primarily to the subfield’s new-wine-in-new-wineskin nature quoted above. In short, even at the moderate, centimetric to millimetric length scales, the realization and operation of soft robots turned out to require out-of-the-box ideas that are far from simple downscaling of their macroscale counterparts. As emphasized in the main text, the subfield owes tremendously to the explorers of the biological world and visionary researchers unafraid of transplanting one type of technology to another. The author gratefully acknowl
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