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Pneumatic neurons for soft robots enable inflate-and-fire networks for rhythmic motion

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 10, 2026 · UTC

Animals coordinate their movements through distributed neural circuits, but soft robots still typically depend on external, centralized electronics for control. Building soft robots that operate without centralized electronic controllers while remaining responsive to their environment remains a frontier challenge in soft robotics. In this work we introduce a soft-robot control architecture inspired by leaky integrate-and-fire models of biological neural circuits. The Pneumatic neuron (Pneu-ron) is a soft actuator that unifies energy conversion, logic, and actuation in one component. Each modul

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