Magnetic liquid metal drives a 3D-printed caterpillar uphill. (IMAGE)

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

Magnetic liquid metal drives a 3D-printed caterpillar uphill.

Caption

A magnetic liquid-metal pattern on the abdomen of a soft, 3D-printed caterpillar responds to changes in an external magnetic field, driving alternating extension and contraction that enables the robot to climb a slope.

Credit

Siying Li§, Pengan Luo§, Hao Lu, Haoran Xu, Feifan Yu, Jin Feng and Tao Zhou*

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