MIT - des matériaux à mémoire de forme pour les futurs robots ?

Jolie vidéo, merci Serge à roulette, sur une autre vision pour le développement des robots du futur: "on" les voit souvent à la Terminator, mais eux essayent de les développer à la mode élastique/pieuvre ;)

J'aime bien prendre un sujet par... l'inverse de la "normale".

Source: VICE

Phase-changing material could allow low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states


Two 3D-printed soft, flexible scaffolds: The one on the left is maintained in a rigid, bent position via a cooled, rigid wax coating, while the one on the right is uncoated and remains compliant (here, it collapses under a wrench).

phys.org

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14 juil. 2014

A new phase-changing material built from wax and foam developed by researchers at MIT is capable of switching between hard and soft states. Learn more: http://mitne.ws/1wlz4bn.

Robots built from this material would be able to operate more like biological systems with applications ranging from difficult search and rescue operations, squeezing through rubble looking for survivors, to deformable surgical robots that could move through the body to reach a particular point without damaging any of the organs or vessels along the way. 

Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Additional video clips courtesy of Nadia Cheng

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