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Microscale Soft Robotics [electronic resource] : Motivations, Progress, and Outlook / by Jaeyoun (Jay) Kim.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and TechnologyPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017Description: XI, 107 p. 73 illus., 70 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319502861
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 620.5 23
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter 1.Introduction -- Chapter 2. Enabling Technologies -- Chapter 3.Enabling Technologies -- Chapter 4. Soft Robotic Micro-Tentacle - A Case Study -- Chapter 5. Current Progress -- Chapter 6.Towards Full-Scale Integration and Beyond.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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 factors, and examples in an inter-linked fashion, making it easy for readers to understand and explore how microscale soft robots are a solution to researchers in search of technological platforms for safe, human-friendly biomedical devices. A compact and timely introduction, this book summarizes not only the enabling factors for soft robots and MEMS devices, but also provides a survey of progress in the field and looks to the future in terms of the material, design, and application aspects this new technology demonstrates.
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Chapter 1.Introduction -- Chapter 2. Enabling Technologies -- Chapter 3.Enabling Technologies -- Chapter 4. Soft Robotic Micro-Tentacle - A Case Study -- Chapter 5. Current Progress -- Chapter 6.Towards Full-Scale Integration and Beyond.

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 factors, and examples in an inter-linked fashion, making it easy for readers to understand and explore how microscale soft robots are a solution to researchers in search of technological platforms for safe, human-friendly biomedical devices. A compact and timely introduction, this book summarizes not only the enabling factors for soft robots and MEMS devices, but also provides a survey of progress in the field and looks to the future in terms of the material, design, and application aspects this new technology demonstrates.