2026
Bundled Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators with Integrated Cooling for Mesoscale Soft Robots
ICRA 2026poster
Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) is a promising material for developing thermally-driven soft actuators due to its high force density, large elastic strain limit, and mechanically programmable nature. However, the complex trade-off between the force generated and the response speed (i.e., cooling rate…