A Non-Newtonian Fluid Robot
| Autor: | Almogit Abu-Horowitz, Tal Barkai, Noam Mamet, Guy Hachmon, Ido Bachelet, Sasson Sapir, Nomi Hadar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Computer science
business.industry Chaotic Structural integrity Robotics 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Non-Newtonian fluid Artificial Intelligence Physical phenomena 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Fluid dynamics Hydrodynamics Robot 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Artificial intelligence 0210 nano-technology business Simulation Locomotion |
| Zdroj: | Artificial life. 22(1) |
| ISSN: | 1064-5462 |
| Popis: | New types of robots inspired by biological principles of assembly, locomotion, and behavior have been recently described. In this work we explored the concept of robots that are based on more fundamental physical phenomena, such as fluid dynamics, and their potential capabilities. We report a robot made entirely of non-Newtonian fluid, driven by shear strains created by spatial patterns of audio waves. We demonstrate various robotic primitives such as locomotion and transport of metallic loads—up to 6-fold heavier than the robot itself—between points on a surface, splitting and merging, shapeshifting, percolation through gratings, and counting to 3. We also utilized interactions between multiple robots carrying chemical loads to drive a bulk chemical synthesis reaction. Free of constraints such as skin or obligatory structural integrity, fluid robots represent a radically different design that could adapt more easily to unfamiliar, hostile, or chaotic environments and carry out tasks that neither living organisms nor conventional machines are capable of. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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