Fully Soft Robotic Fabric
A collaboration project between CMU and PATPAT for interactive children clothing research.
All rights reserved to PATPAT & CMU
In this project, we integrated 3 types of intrincally soft actuators - hydrogel, shape memory alloy (SMA), and liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) into textile-based soft goods to create interactive children’s clothing with playful, morphing features—such as animated characters that bend or transform (e.g., dinosaur hand and dog tongue). The actuators were designed to be soft, stretchable, and bendable, supporting multiple actuation modes. We conducted cyclic durability, tensile, and washing tests to evaluate performance and robustness.
(All quantitative data are not open to public and are available only upon request.)
(All quantitative data are not open to public and are available only upon request.)
SMA based actuatorLCE based actuator