An Actuation Model for Soft Robot Based on Amorphous Computational Material

Amorphous Computational Material(ACM) is a concept of an active material that can sense its environment and, due to its cognitive capabilities, react. intelligently. to those changes. In such a material, we envision semiconducting polymer based sensing, actuation, and information process for on- board decision making to be combined into one active material. This paper describes incremental steps taken towards developing such a multifunctional active material with an intermediate goal of utilizing ACM as a. skin. of a soft robot - a robot, made of flexible materials, which is not bounded by its rigid structure and can adjust to its changing environment. We demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing water hammer as a form of directed actuation.