Gwangjun Go

Ascidian-Inspired Soft Robots That Can Crawl, Tumble, and Pick-and-Place Objects

A cylindrical shaped marine invertebrate ascidian has muscle fibers surrounding its body, which induce the contraction motion when the animal senses the external stimuli. As inspired by its cylindrical shape and the contraction motion of the ascidian, we introduce a soft robot that resembles this wa