A Healable Resistive Heater as a Stimuli-Providing System in Self-Healing Soft Robots Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Self-healing polymers can address the damage susceptibility in soft robotics. However, in most cases, their healing requires a heat stimulus, provided by an external device. This letter presents a self-healing soft actuator with an integrated healable flexible heater, functioning as the stimuli-providing system. The actuator is constructed out of thermoreversible elastomers that are crosslinked by the Diels-Alder (DA) reaction, which provides ...