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Lee, Y., Koehler, F., Dillon, T., Loke, G., Kim, Y., Marion, J., … Anikeeva, P. (2023). Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots. Advances in Materials.
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Lee, Youngbin, Florian Koehler, Tom Dillon, Gabriel Loke, Y. Kim, Juliette Marion, Marc‐Joseph Antonini, et al. “Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots.” Advances in Materials (2023).
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Lee, Youngbin, et al. “Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots.” Advances in Materials, 2023.
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@article{youngbin2023a,
title = {Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots},
year = {2023},
journal = {Advances in Materials},
author = {Lee, Youngbin and Koehler, Florian and Dillon, Tom and Loke, Gabriel and Kim, Y. and Marion, Juliette and Antonini, Marc‐Joseph and Garwood, Indie C. and Sahasrabudhe, Atharva and Nagao, Keisuke and Zhao, Xuanhe and Fink, Yoel and Roche, E. and Anikeeva, P.}
}
Broad adoption of magnetic soft robotics is hampered by the sophisticated field paradigms for their manipulation and the complexities in controlling multiple devices. Furthermore, high‐throughput fabrication of such devices across spatial scales remains challenging. Here, advances in fiber‐based actuators and magnetic elastomer composites are leveraged to create 3D magnetic soft robots controlled by unidirectional fields. Thermally drawn elastomeric fibers are instrumented with a magnetic composite synthesized to withstand strains exceeding 600%. A combination of strain and magnetization engineering in these fibers enables programming of 3D robots capable of crawling or walking in magnetic fields orthogonal to the plane of motion. Magnetic robots act as cargo carriers, and multiple robots can be controlled simultaneously and in opposing directions using a single stationary electromagnet. The scalable approach to fabrication and control of magnetic soft robots invites their future applications in constrained environments where complex fields cannot be readily deployed.