Design of CLARI: A Miniature Modular Origami Passive Shape‐Morphing Robot

Abstract

Legged Soft Robots Featured here is CLARI, Compliant Legged Articulated Robotic Insect, a 2.59 g, 3.4 cm long, modular origami robot capable of passive shape morphing. The robot can run rapidly in multiple body shapes to maximize maneuverability and passively adapt to lateral environmental constraints leveraging its compliant body. The results presented by Heiko Kabutz and Kaushik Jayaram in article 2300181 represent the first step towards exploiting unprecedented access enabled by shape-morphing miniature robots to navigate through cluttered terrains and realize their potential for socioeconomically impactful real-world applications.