Fig. 4: Self-reacting soft robots triggered by touchless external stimuli from human and environment.
From: Touchless interactive teaching of soft robots through flexible bimodal sensory interfaces
Touchless control of a pneumatic-actuated 3 DoFs soft manipulator for a bending and b shortening in response to an approaching human hand. c A pneumatic-actuated soft origami robot with the FBSS successfully detects and grasps a toy bug. d Demonstrating a soft robotic gripper equipped with the FBSS autonomously searching, detecting, and grasping a plastic cylinder object. e The tactile and touchless sensory outputs during this process are plotted against time. The searching (cyan shading), detecting (green shading) and grasping (orange shading) processes can be distinguished in real time.
