Pneumatic BeltXin Chen, Coskun Kocabas, and George M. Whitesides

By hardening one side of a balloon, it can be made into a pneumatic bending actuator. A pneumatic rolling belt, consisting of eight parallel pneumatic bending actuators was also designed and demonstrated.

Harden the

bottom surface

Inflate

Harvard MRSEC DMR-0820484 D.A. Weitz and C.M. Friend