Process Creates Soft Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines

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  • TBMG-37384
Published August 01, 2020 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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Computationally controlled commercial knitting machines were used to create knitted objects that are actuated by tendons. New software makes it possible for the objects to emerge from the knitting machines in their desired shapes and with tendons already embedded. They can then be stuffed and the tendons attached to motors as necessary.