Researchers 3D Print Magnetoelectronics For Self Aware 4D Mechatronics
Researchers report fully 3D printed magnetoelectronics that let printed parts sense their own motion and state, enabling interactive appliances and self aware 4D mechatronics. What is being printed here? Not just the housing. The team describes additively manufactured structures that include both magnetic features and conductive elements so a part can detect rotation, proximity, closure, or deformation without bolted on sensors. This approach combines multi material extrusion and soft robotics. We have seen printed strain gauges, flexible conductive paths, and embedded magnets before. The novelty is the codesign of the magnetic field source and the printed readout, packaged entirely inside the printed geometry. In other words, the part becomes the transducer.
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