Self-Healing Polymer Keeps Soft Robots Working

Self-Healing Polymer Keeps Soft Robots Working
Aug-20-17
A self-healing polymer from the team at Vrije Universiteit Brussel could help make soft robots more robust.

While soft robots have many useful applications, they are also a bit prone to damage. To help these gentler robots recover from cuts and breaks, the research team developed a jelly-like polymer made of many different strands locked together. If the polymer is damaged, adding heat will cause the strands to reorganize and ‘heal’ the material without weak spots.



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