Laser Pouch Motors: Selective and Wireless Activation of Soft Actuators by Laser-powered Liquid-to-gas Phase Change

Untethered control of soft-bodied robots is attractive for interactions in a variety of unstructured and dynamic environments. However, soft robotics systems are currently limited in terms of wireless, selective, and scalable control of multiple actuators. Therefore, we propose a method to wirelessly drive multiple soft actuators by laser projection. A small amount of low-boiling-point liquid insi...