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  • Robotics
  • Materials Science
  • Additive Manufacturing

Background:

  • Magnetic soft structures offer untethered and responsive actuation for soft robot fabrication.
  • Single-material magnetic structures limit multifunctional capabilities in practical applications.
  • Composite structures using diverse materials are essential for advanced soft robots.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an enhanced digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing technology for fabricating composite magnetic structures.
  • To design and print a soft robot utilizing a composite of hard magnetic and superparamagnetic materials.
  • To demonstrate the robot's multifunctional capabilities, including locomotion and object manipulation.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an enhanced digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing technique for single-step, multi-material printing.
  • Fabricated a soft robot composed of hard magnetic and superparamagnetic materials.
  • Investigated the thermal effects under high-frequency magnetic fields and magnetic domain editability.
  • Evaluated locomotive behaviors (crawling, rolling, swimming) and environmental navigation.

Main Results:

  • The DLP technology successfully printed composite magnetic structures in a single step.
  • The printed soft robot exhibited crawling (0.31 BL/s), rolling (1.88 BL/s), and swimming (0.14 BL/s) capabilities.
  • The robot demonstrated terrain navigation, barrier traversal, directed locomotion, and object capture/transport.
  • Swimming performance was validated in low Reynolds number, high viscosity environments, aligning with simulations.

Conclusions:

  • The novel DLP 3D printing technology enables the creation of complex, multifunctional magnetic soft robots.
  • Composite magnetic structures open new avenues for advanced soft robot design and applications.
  • This technology holds significant potential for manufacturing sophisticated soft robots for diverse tasks.