Analysis of Soft Kirigami Unit Cells for Tunable Stiffness Architectures

The enhancement of stiffness in many soft actuators and architectures is required to produce a large blocking force or to achieve multidimensional deformations. This paper introduces a new method exploiting Kirigami inspired kinematic architecture. Usually, Kirigami structures are made of rigid materials (i.e., thin sheets). Instead, in this study we investigate Kirigami unit cells made of soft ma...