Abstract While the last sixty years have defined the field of industrial robots and empowered hard-bodied robots to execute complex assembly tasks in constrained industrial settings, the next sixty years will usher in our time with pervasive robots that come in a diversity of forms and materials and help people with physical tasks. The past sixty years have mostly been inspired by the human form, but the form diversity of the animal kingdom has broader potential. With the development of soft materials, machines and materials are coming closer together: machines are becoming compliant and fluid-like materials, and materials are becoming more intelligent. This progression raises the question: what will be the machines from our future?

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我们未来的机器

摘要 虽然过去 60 年已经定义了工业机器人领域，并赋予了硬体机器人在受限工业环境中执行复杂装配任务的能力，但未来 60 年将迎来我们的时代，各种形式和材料的机器人无处不在并帮助人们完成体力活。过去六十年的灵感主要来自人类形态，但动物王国的形态多样性具有更广阔的潜力。随着软材料的发展，机器和材料之间的距离越来越近：机器变得柔顺、流体状的材料，材料变得更加智能。这一进展提出了一个问题：我们未来的机器将是什么？