Last night I read an article about soft robotics at the IEEE Spectrum magazine. This article was publish by Cecilia Laschi at March, 2017 which name is "A robot octopus points the way to soft robotics". Then I found the related article from the internet.(You can access from this link). The article was simply related with soft robotic project and outcomes of this project. "As a professor at the BioRobotics Institute at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in Pisa, Italy, I lead a team investigating soft robotics. This relatively new field of research has the potential to upend our ideas about what robots are capable of and where they can be useful. I chose to build robots that mimic the form of the octopus for two reasons. First, because they’re well suited to demonstrate the many advantages that come when a machine can flex and squish as needed. Also, it’s an excellent engineering challenge: An octopus with eight wiggly arms, which must work together in the face of complex hydrodynamic forces, is very difficult to design and control." Firstly I questioned "What Is Soft Robotics?" after reading this article. So I made a quick research and I will explain it shortly below.
Fig: Soft Robotics - Materials & Result[source] What Is Soft Robotics?
Soft robots that are sometimes called "biologically inspired robots" can be defined as the subfield of robotics that dealing with soft, elastic and compliant materials similar to living organism in the nature such as octopus. If we compare the soft robots with conventional industrial robots(hard robots), soft robotics focus on high-level behavioral diversity, high level of bio-inspiration, can tolerate low accuracy, low speed, and force applications and is of low weight and cost in the other hand industrial robotics have a low level of behavioral diversity, low level of bio-inspiration, high accuracy, high speed, and force application and high weight and cost. You can easily access some project in the name of soft robotics from there.
Soft robotics seem to be more valuable and mostly used in our daily life rather than now. It sounds good to imagine these robots in every fields.
Just Imagination
As you may know I have been mainly working on heavy industrial robotics(hard robots). This subject attracts my attention because most of industrial robots and automation systems have just one main control and actions are controlled from one center(controller) and continues well suited communication protocols and hand-shaking algorithms. It could be understandable to manage "heavy" robots and well structed automation systems in a strict way and one main processor. After reading this article I just imagine how could be the all automation systems in a factory manage themselves and interact with each others. I guess in the modern way of industry we can call it Industry 4.0 or more technologically Industry 5.0 and this subject will gain more importance in the near future.
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