Jun Shintake

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A variable stiffness magnetic catheter made of a conductive shape memory polymer for minimally invasive surgery

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Yegor Piskarev

A hollow variable stiffness thread including a flexible inner tube, a conductive shape memory polymer (CSMP) layer arranged around the inner tube forming a variable stiffness zone, a flexible encapsulation layer arranged around the CSMP layer, and a first ...

2023

Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Bokeon Kwak

Drones have shown to be useful aerial vehicles for unmanned transport missions such as food and medical supply delivery. This can be leveraged to deliver life-saving nutrition and medicine for people in emergency situations. However, commercial drones can ...

IEEE2022

Stretchable electrohydrodynamic pump

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Vito Cacucciolo

A stretchable pump for providing electrohydrodynamic pumping of a ionisable fluid, said soft pump comprising a stretchable polymeric structure comprising at least one elongated channel, therein; and a first set of at least two electrodes operatively dispos ...

2020

A Soft Gripper with Granular Jamming and Electroadhesive Properties

Dario Floreano, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Jun Shintake, Yegor Piskarev, Vivek Ramachandran

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development of universal soft grippers that can handle objects of varying form factors (including flat objects), surface conditions (including moistened or oily objects), and mechanical properties ( ...

2023

Development of Bio-inspired Underwater Robot with Adaptive Morphology Capable of Multiple Swimming Modes

Thibaut André Pierre Paschal, Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Jun Shintake

Bio-inspired underwater robots have several benefits compared to traditional underwater vehicles such as agility, efficiency, and an environmentally friendly body. However, the bio-inspired underwater robots developed so far have a single swimming mode, wh ...

2017

Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A novel variable stiffness actuator composed of a dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) and a low-melting-point-alloy (LMPA) embedded silicone substrate is demonstrated. The device which we call variable stiffness dielectric elastomer actuator (VSDEA) enable ...

IEEE2015

Delicate yet strong: characterizing the electro-adhesion lifting force with a soft gripper

Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Vito Cacucciolo

Compliant grippers are one of the most promising soft robotic devices for industrial tasks. Soft grippers dramatically simplify grasping control because the gripper automatically conforms to the object's shape. A common limitation of soft structures is tha ...

IEEE2019

Bioinspired dual-stiffness origami

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Jun Shintake

Origami manufacturing has led to considerable advances in the field of foldable structures with innovative applications in robotics, aerospace, and metamaterials. However, existing origami are either load-bearing structures that are prone to tear and fail ...

2018

Fast-Response Variable-Stiffness Magnetic Catheters for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Yegor Piskarev, Yi Sun

In minimally invasive surgery, such as cardiac ablation, magnetically steered catheters made of variable-stiffness materials can enable higher dexterity and higher force application to human tissue. However, the long transition time between soft and rigid ...

2024

Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Jun Shintake, Alice Tonazzini

A variable stiffness fiber made of silicone and low melting point alloys quickly becomes >700 times softer and >400 times more deformable when heated above 62 °C. It shows remarkable self-healing properties and can be clamped, knitted, and bonded, as shown ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Stretchable pumps for soft machines

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Vito Cacucciolo

Machines made of soft materials bridge life sciences and engineering. Advances in soft materials have led to skin-like sensors and muscle-like actuators for soft robots and wearable devices. Flexible or stretchable counterparts of most key mechatronic comp ...

2019

Electroadhesive device, system and method for gripping

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A device for electroadhesion and conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy, for example electrostatic actuation, is provided, including a soft polymeric dielectric support having at least two sets of overlapping electrodes patterned respective ...

2017