Soft robotics controlled by programmable soft valves for digital and analog control

In a study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, robotics researchers, engineers and materials scientists from Rice University and Harvard University showed it is possible to make programmable, nonelectronic circuits that control the actions of soft robots by processing information encoded in bursts of compressed air. What began as an undergraduate summer research project turned into a monthslong collaboration to demonstrate that simple air-driven logic gates constructed primarily from everyday materials like plastic drinking straws and rubber bands could be combined and configured in system architectures that incorporate both digital and analog controls for soft robots.
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