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Muscle-inspired soft robots based on bilateral dielectric elastomer actuators
Muscle groups perform their functions in the human body via bilateral muscle actuation, which brings bionic inspiration to artificial robot design....
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Stimuli-responsive polymer-based bioinspired soft robots
Soft robotics enables various applications in certain environments where conventional rigid robotics cannot deliver the same performance due to their...
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“It Brings the Good Vibes”: Exploring Biomorphic Aesthetics in the Design of Soft Personal Robots
The flexible bodies of soft robots provide exciting new possibilities for interaction with humans. In this paper, we propose a novel design paradigm,...
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Variable Curvature Modeling Method of Soft Continuum Robots with Constraints
The inherent compliance of continuum robots holds great promise in the fields of soft manipulation and safe human–robot interaction. This compliance...
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Trimmed helicoids: an architectured soft structure yielding soft robots with high precision, large workspace, and compliant interactions
The development and use of architectured structures is changing the means by which we design and fabricate soft robots. These materials utilize their...
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Self-sensing actuators with programmable actuation performances for soft robots
Designing soft robots that are able to perceive unstructured, dynamic environments and their deformations has been a long-term goal. Previously...
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Hydrogel and Machine Learning for Soft Robots’ Sensing and Signal Processing: A Review
The soft robotics field is on the rise. The highly adaptive robots provide the opportunity to bridge the gap between machines and people. However,...
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Self-Pum** Actuation Module and its Application in Untethered Soft Robots
Pneumatically driven soft actuators have been widely used in soft material robotics. However, soft pneumatic actuators are usually tethered to a...
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Soft Actuation and Compliant Mechanisms in Humanoid Robots
Purpose of ReviewWe aimed to reveal the impact of soft robotics, which has developed in the last decade, on humanoid robotics research. Although...
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Integrated stretchable pneumatic strain gauges for electronics-free soft robots
In soft robotics, actuators, logic and power systems can be entirely fluidic and electronics-free. However, sensors still typically rely on electric...
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Model-based versus model-free optimal tracking for soft robots: analytical and data-driven Koopman modeling, control design and experimental validation
Soft robots, as a new type of robots, are highly flexible and deformable, which can adapt to the needs of tasks in complex environments. However, due...
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Kinematic modeling and design of untethered soft mobile magnetic robots with multiple support sections
Recent developments in minimally invasive medicine have been fomenting the development of smaller and controllable devices. However, one of the major...
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Stretchable e-skin and transformer enable high-resolution morphological reconstruction for soft robots
Many robotic tasks require knowledge of the exact 3D robot geometry. However, this remains extremely challenging in soft robotics because of the...
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Dynamic Finite Element Modeling and Simulation of Soft Robots
Soft robots have become important members of the robot community with many potential applications owing to their unique flexibility and security...
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Origami-inspired folding assembly of dielectric elastomers for programmable soft robots
Origami has become an optimal methodological choice for creating complex three-dimensional (3D) structures and soft robots. The simple and low-cost...
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Additive Manufacturing of Soft Robots
Soft robotics is an emerging field in science and technology that extends the area of classical robotics to new types of applications. Soft robots...
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Controlled actuation, adhesion, and stiffness in soft robots: A review
Rigid robotic grippers are not capable of self-adjusting their grip size based on any real-time changes in the dimensions of the target object. This...
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Soft Mobile Robots: a Review of Soft Robotic Locomotion Modes
Purpose of ReviewSoft robotics enables unprecedented capabilities for mobile robots that could not be previously achieved using rigid mechanisms....
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Gait-Planning-Based Path Planning for Crocodile-Inspired Pneumatic Soft Robots
In many cases, soft robots with their inherent flexibility, ease of interaction, and high adaptability in complex environments, receive widespread...
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Layer Jamming of Magnetorheological Elastomers for Variable Stiffness in Soft Robots
BackgroundOne of the biggest challenges in soft robotics is the variability and controllability of stiffness. Jamming-based approaches have been of...
