A Computational Design Tool for Compliant Mechanisms

[thatawhatn.]

from time to time I forgot that disney have their own terrifying advance R&D department

[ToonMeynen]

Jaw-dropping, luckily it moved back to it’s original position.

[luminas-dw]

Your work is really impressive. This software will be useful, especially for those who have 3D printers.

[sunnymon]

Specialty plastics are always going to be needed for good compliant mechanisms. It's incredibly difficult to not doubt the durability claims. The other thing is, traditional mechanisms have more readily replaceable parts. Avoids having to tear down a whole model/animatronic to replace the mechanism is one flecture breaks.

[TheCabbageMan]

This would be useful for MEMS research, especially the FEM computational stuff, like microgrippers

[AerialWaviator]

Brilliant. This video really inspiring to creating innovative mechanisms.
Given accessibility to 3d printers and other material manufacturing techniques it is much easier to explore such designs. Too bad there are not easily accessible design tools that make such explorations available to a larger audience. (maybe there is, and I'm just not aware).

Pointers in the video description to additional resources, or references would have been helpful.
Thanks for sharing and enlightening us.

[aSpyIntheHaus]

In the first mechanism you demonstrate(not the walking one), How do you ensure that the output profile is maintained if there is any load applied to output arms end point. An example would be if, the output arm was attached to a pen that draws the profile on paper. If the pen dragged heavy on the paper would the profile change? It looks as though there is an additional degree of freedom added to the output arm from the added flexure....
Now you've completely piqued my interest I'm going to have to build one of these out of lego...

[naturalfreq]

Is there a paper that goes with this video. Very interesting and impressive.

[MCRuCr]

I did not know disney does these kinds of things.
Its like transforming engineering to an art

[JesterJones]

curious how this handles itself after a large amount of use, I feel like things that flex tend to break down and warp easier.

[mgames]

Why did I think the thumbnail was a bunch of airpods tied to a string 😭😭

[DaddyDumptruckDeluxe]

This is my favorite Disney Production.

[victorhugoleme]

I hurts me a lot, seeing the dragon wing running backwards.
Despite this, awesome work!

[traviscarter]

How do we get this software? It's awesome!

[arcadealchemist]

your whole body is created from fiber strands that work like this. Crazy

[prdoyle]

2:30 - aren't those motors rotating backward?

[LillyCox]

I got this recommended to me and I’m so fascinated by something do not understand even remotely

[Lellba]

Hi, is this software open source? can I find the code anywhere? This is amazing!

[my-days-co]

That’s insane… that can be widely applied in many industries with strong advance in the future

[WD]

i'm impressed, this is simple but very clever