Thermoplastic Conditioned to Walk (VIDEO)
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This video illustrate the role of the association process in devising a locomotive robot that ''learns'' to walk by irradiation. The LCN-based robot is initially sensitive to heat to allow bending and locomotion only by thermal pulses but is insensitive to light yet becomes light-active after associating the two stimuli.Under temporally modulated irradiation, the 'conditioned' soft robot starts to walk on a surface with asymmetric friction, which is beyond its capabilities before the conditioning process.
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Zeng and Zhang et al./Matter
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