Donghua University Spins Transistors Into Fibers That Act as Soft Robot Circuits

Donghua University researchers spun transistors, resistors and capacitors into a continuous fiber that functions as a circuit, using microfluidic encoded spinning, according to a Nature Electronics paper. The fibers integrated multicolor electroluminescence, analog and digital logic, and non-contact spatial sensing, and in demonstrations guided a robotic gripper and let a finger control a robotic arm and drone without touch.