Systems and methods for actuating soft robotic actuators

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9945397
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14243656

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Systems and methods for providing a soft robot is provided. In one system, a robotic device includes a flexible body having a fluid chamber, where a portion of the flexible body includes an elastically extensible material and a portion of the flexible body is strain limiting relative to the elastically extensible material. The robotic device can further include a pressurizing inlet in fluid communication with the fluid chamber, and a pressurizing device in fluid communication with the pressurizing inlet, the pressurizing device including a reaction chamber configured to accommodate a gas-producing chemical reaction for providing pressurized gas to the pressurizing inlet.

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  • PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cademartiri, Ludovico Somerville, US 5 21
Chen, Xin Cambridge, US 736 6905
Freake, Jacob Willimantic, US 11 38
Morin, Stephen A Lincoln, US 12 246
Nunes, Rui Somerville, US 7 46
Shepherd, Robert F Brooktondale, US 25 321
Stokes, Adam Watertown, US 11 171
Whitesides, George M Newton, US 240 10753

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