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Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Jun Shintake, Alice Tonazzini

A variable stiffness fiber made of silicone and low melting point alloys quickly becomes >700 times softer and >400 times more deformable when heated above 62 °C. It shows remarkable self-healing properties and can be clamped, knitted, and bonded, as shown ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler

An aerial vehicle including self-autonomous deployable arms and methods of deploying the vehicle are disclosed. The arms may include patterns located thereon that allow the arms to transition between wrapped, flat, and deployed configurations autonomously ...

2016

A Pocket Sized Foldable Quadcopter for Situational Awareness and Reconnaissance

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev

Flying robots are rapidly becoming an essential tool in search and rescue missions because they can rapidly gather information from inaccessible or unsafe locations, thus increasing safety and rapidity of interventions. With this aim, we present a pocket s ...

Ieee2016

Adaptive Morphology: A Design Principle for Multimodal and Multifunctional Robots

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev

Morphology plays an important role in behavioral and locomotion strategies of living and artificial systems. There is biological evidence that adaptive morphological changes can not only extend dynamic performances by reducing tradeoffs during locomotion b ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Kevin Nicholas Cradock Owen

Flying robots are increasingly adopted in search and rescue missions because of their capability to quickly collect and stream information from remote and dangerous areas. To further enhance their use, we are investigating the development of a new class of ...

Ieee2016

A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler

With the aim to extend the versatility and adaptability of robots in complex environments, a novel multi-modal flying and walking robot is presented. The robot consists of a flying wing with adaptive morphology that can perform both long distance flight an ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler, Géraud L'Eplattenier, Louis Lazare Saint-Raymond

Aerial robots provide valuable support in several high-risk scenarios thanks to their capability to quickly fly to locations dangerous or even inaccessible to humans. In order to fully benefit from these features, aerial robots should be easy to transport ...

2015

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