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The Smash Martians were the stars of a series of 1970s and early 1980s TV advertising campaigns for Smash instant mashed potato in the UK. They were a family of Martian robots who would watch humans laboriously preparing mashed potato the traditional way on TV.

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are popular as actuators for soft bioinspired robots because they are naturally compliant, have high work density, and can be operated using miniaturized on-board electronics for power and control.

May 31, 2023 · Shape memory alloys (SMAs) on the other hand, are able to restore their predefined shape by heating them up to a certain temperature, externally or via joule heating through applying a...

Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) have been used for a wide variety of applications in various fields such as robotics. If these materials subjected to an appropriate thermomechanical process, they have ability to return to their initial shape. Often, they are used as actuators in robotic applications.

Given their unique properties, SMAs are found to have significant potential for implementation in many emerging applications in mobile robots, robotic hands, wearable devices, aerospace/automotive components, and biomedical devices.

Aug 2, 2019 · A starfish robot based on soft and smart modular structure (SMS) actuated by SMA wires. Bioinspiration & biomimetics 11, 056012, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/11/5/056012 (2016).

Feb 26, 2025 · The robot chassis (part K) was reinforced to prevent the robot from buckling because of the SMA contraction. SMAs (part B) manufactured for this robot had resistances of around 0.6 ohm and could be contracted through joule heating in 30 s or less, depending on the contraction current used (0.48 A corresponds to 9.5 s).

Applications will go from small scale as powering IoT, equipment answering the demand of billions of Internet-connected devices, wearable electronics, satellites, robots, and medium scale as Telecom, transportation or domestic needs storing a massive amount of energy from renewable sources like solar and wind in order to have available energy ...

Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) have been used for a wide variety of applications in various fields such as robotics. If these materials subjected to an appropriate thermomechanical process, they have ability to return to their initial shape. Often, they are used as actuators in robotic applications.