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Steerable soft 'fibre' robots could enhance medical applications  [Read More]

• Using optical fibre making ideas enables development of soft robots with advanced motion control
• Researchers from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Imperial College, London, have created fibre-based soft robots with advanced motion control that integrate other functionalities, such as electric and optical sensing and targeted delivery of fluids
• To generate long fibres featuring multiple channels along their entire length, the researchers had to fine-tune the drawing process parameters - An important characteristic of the process is the interplay between the viscosity of the material
  
• By optimising the material properties, drawing speed, and fabrication temperature, the team could reliably produce the continuous channels, arranged within the fibres at a micrometer scale, needed to give the fibre its robotic capabilities

Photo credited to - Alain Herzog/EPFL