POS5-0976
Continuous Jumping and Efficient Liquid Manipulation by Mechanical Instability-Driven Buckling of Magnetic Soft Robots
Topic
S5. Polymers for Electronics and Photonics
When and Where
Oct 1, 2026
08:30 - 09:30
Room 301 (Grand Ballroom)
Session Chairs
Jinkee HONG
Ki Su KIM
Presenter(s)
Kijun Yang (Hanyang university)
Co-Author(s)
Abstract
Buckling-induced actuation in soft robots has shown potential for untethered motion and functional tasks. However, buckling of soft robots is often sequential, symmetric, and temporally intermittent, limiting their agile, directional, and repeatable motions. Herein, we present a magnetic soft robot with programmed buckling behavior via embedded bridge structures and a loop boundary condition. The magnetic robot enables rapid elastic energy storage and asymmetric release, resulting in directional and repeatable buckling for high environmental adaptability and efficient liquid manipulation. The high adaptable magnetic robots offer a new perspective for programmable actuation in soft robotics and will expand the application fields for adaptive mobility and safe liquid transport in hazardous or inaccessible environments.
