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ArticleNature communications2024

Stenus-inspired, swift, and agile untethered insect-scale soft propulsors.

Xingxing Ke, Haochen Yong, Fukang Xu, Han Ding, Zhigang Wu

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xingxing KeState Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Haochen YongState Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Fukang XuState Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Han DingState Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Zhigang WuState Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China. zgwu@hust.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-3719-406X
Huazhong University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52188102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mimicking living creatures, soft robots exhibit incomparable adaptability and various attractive new features. However, untethered insect-scale soft robots are often plagued with inferior controllability and low kinetic performance. Systematically inspired by the swift swingable abdomen, conducting canals for secretion transport, and body setae of Stenus comma, together with magnetic-induced fast-transformed postures, herein, we present a swift, agile untethered millimetre-scale soft propulsor propelling on water. The demonstrated propulsor, with a body length (BL) of 3.6 mm, achieved a recorded specific speed of ~201 BL/s and acceleration of ~8,372 BL/s

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ColeopteraAccelerationAnimalsBirdsHydrodynamicsInsecta

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PMID38374180
PMCPMC10876683
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