Soft, Rotating Pneumatic Actuator
Soft, Rotating Pneumatic Actuator is a scholarly work by Alar Ainla, Mohit S Verma, and George M. Whitesides, published in 2017 in ''Soft robotics''. The main subjects of the publication include pneumatic actuator, pneumatic cylinder, self-reconfiguring modular robot, materials science, control theory, engineering, Active matter, rotary actuator, Pneumatic artificial muscles, trajectory, circumference, actuator, Artificial muscle, soft robotics, and mechanical engineering. The authors demonstrate two applications of this actuator: to deliver fluid while stirring (by replacing the central rod with a needle) and for locomotion that mimics a reptilian gait (by combining four actuators together).