Soft robots are known for their intelligence, flexibility, and eco-friendliness, showing great potential in ocean exploration.
For example, many studies have shown that compared to rigid clamps, ultra-gentle soft robotic fingers can significantly reduce the stress response of jellyfish during handling.
Despite the great advantages, soft robots face many challenges in the underwater environment where unstable ocean currents or marine organisms can easily damage them.
Damaged soft robots may lead to loss of valuable exploration opportunities,
like observing the spawning behavior of staghorn corals and other precious phenomena.
Additionally,
the cost of salvaging damaged soft robots is extremely high,
often exceeding $10,000 each time.
Soft robots with self-healing capabilities is a good approach to address the above issues.
However, self-healing materials applied on soft robots have many problems,
the inability to
achieve multiple repairs
severe requirements for
the healing process like...
In addition, residues of existing self-healing materials will cause
irreversible pollution to our marine environment.
Don't worry!
Now we have SAMUS.
After applying SAMUS, soft robots can automatically repair and overcome the problems mentioned before.
Using SAMUS, the durability of soft robots can be significantly improved, reducing the valuable ocean exploration opportunities loss due to damage and protecting the oceanic environment.
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