Soft material based soft robots have been fabricated with molding and casting methods. These fabrication methods are considered as top-down design approach, because all components and shape of the robot are custom designed to fit robots’ function. We introduce modularized bottom-up design concept to build soft robots by assembling prefabricated standard soft robotic bricks as similar as playing with toy bricks. With our modularized soft bricks, end users creatively and freely build various shapes of soft robots with different motions. We hope our approach extend filed of soft robotics.

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Keywords : #Soft material, #Soft actuator, #Novel fabrication method