Explores soft electrically-driven actuators for robotics and haptics, focusing on electrostatic actuation principles and the development of soft actuators using various materials.
Explores scaling laws and applications of electrostatics in MEMS, covering topics like parallel plate capacitors, zipping actuators, and MEMS gyroscopes.
Explores autonomously moving and assembling soft matter systems, focusing on hydrogel actuators, latch-mediated spring actuation, and self-spinning filament bundles.
Covers the introduction to Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), including operating principles, elements, scaling laws, silicon choice, sensors, and actuators.
