公开(公告)号：US09945397B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-17

申请号：US14243656

申请日：2014-04-02

Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College

Inventor： Robert F. Shepherd ,  Adam Stokes ,  Stephen A. Morin ,  Ludovico Cademartiri ,  Jacob Freake ,  Rui Nunes ,  Xin Chen ,  George M. Whitesides

IPC: F01B29/08 ,  F15B13/04 ,  B25J9/10 ,  B25J9/14

CPC classification number: F15B13/04 ,  B25J9/1075 ,  B25J9/142

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a soft robot is provided. In one system, a robotic device includes a flexible body having a fluid chamber, where a portion of the flexible body includes an elastically extensible material and a portion of the flexible body is strain limiting relative to the elastically extensible material. The robotic device can further include a pressurizing inlet in fluid communication with the fluid chamber, and a pressurizing device in fluid communication with the pressurizing inlet, the pressurizing device including a reaction chamber configured to accommodate a gas-producing chemical reaction for providing pressurized gas to the pressurizing inlet.