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#News(General) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
AS FAR AS plant names go, the sleepy plant—or shy plant, or shameplant, known more formally as Mimosa pudica—is hard to beat. Touch one of its leaves and it curls up like it’s embarrassed, the leaflets folding in on each other. It’s hypnotic and, well, kind of a surprising response for an organism without a brain. Now, the shameplant is getting its very own robotic doppelganger. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed deceptively simple actuators (the fancy term for a motor that moves a robot) made of conductive 3-D-printed material and paper. Apply electricity to the inked material and it shapeshifts, producing smooth movements. It’s not the burliest actuator by any means, but paper actuators could well carve out their own niche in robotics.
VIDEO BY CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
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