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A multimodal electromechanical switch (mEMS) using a stretchable droplet-amplified electrostatic zipping structure achieves momentary, latching, and electrically actuated switching by tuning applied voltage.
- Why it matters: Lightweight, low-power physical intelligence structures are needed that can couple multiple robotic functions without redesigning hardware for each mode.
- What they did: The snap-through behavior of the elastic zipping membrane was theoretically analyzed to enable voltage-dependent memory, and these considerations were experimentally validated.
- The result: An mEMS array supports robotic memory (writing/erasing), reprogrammable communication (encrypting/decrypting/display), electrically reprogrammable logic gates, and binary information transfer.
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