An untethered, jumping roly-poly soft robot driven by combustion

Our latest research on soft robotic got accepted! The complete paper will be out in the issue of March 2015, in Soft Robotics

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We presented a soft robot, which is able to jump upon ignition of a hydrocarbon/laughing-gas mixture.  The roly-poly geometry helped to reorientate the robot after a jump. Depending on the oxidant to fuel ratio, we showed different running properties. The complete paper will be out in the issue of March 2015, in external pageSoft Robotics

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