Soft parallel manipulator fabricated by additive manufacturing

Conducting polymer (CP) based soft actuators are good candidates for miniaturised manipulation systems and soft robotic applications. We present the fabrication, characterization, and modelling, of a novel ionically driven soft, flat, parallel manipulator with minimal footprint actuated by CP actuators. This three degrees of freedom (3Dof) manipulator consists of four trilayer actuators with poly (3, 4- ethylenedioxy-thiophene):poly(styrene...