Bistable and multistable actuators for soft robots: Structures, materials, and functionalities

Y Chi, Y Li, Y Zhao, Y Hong, Y Tang… - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Snap‐through bistability is often observed in nature (eg, fast snap** to closure of Venus
flytrap) and the life (eg, bottle caps and hair clippers). Recently, harnessing bistability and …

Engineering origami: A comprehensive review of recent applications, design methods, and tools

M Meloni, J Cai, Q Zhang, D Sang‐Hoon Lee… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Origami‐based designs refer to the application of the ancient art of origami to solve
engineering problems of different nature. Despite being implemented at dimensions that …

Soft robotic origami crawler

Q Ze, S Wu, J Nishikawa, J Dai, Y Sun, S Leanza… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Biomimetic soft robotic crawlers have attracted extensive attention in various engineering
fields, owing to their adaptivity to different terrains. Earthworm-like crawlers realize …

Stretchable origami robotic arm with omnidirectional bending and twisting

S Wu, Q Ze, J Dai, N Udipi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Inspired by the embodied intelligence observed in octopus arms, we introduce magnetically
controlled origami robotic arms based on Kresling patterns for multimodal deformations …

Spinning-enabled wireless amphibious origami millirobot

Q Ze, S Wu, J Dai, S Leanza, G Ikeda, PC Yang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Wireless millimeter-scale origami robots have recently been explored with great potential for
biomedical applications. Existing millimeter-scale origami devices usually require separate …

Active materials for functional origami

S Leanza, S Wu, X Sun, HJ Qi, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Design, fabrication and control of origami robots

D Rus, MT Tolley - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Origami robots are created using folding processes, which provide a simple approach to
fabricating a wide range of robot morphologies. Inspired by biological systems, engineers …

The design, manufacture and application of multistable mechanical metamaterials-a state-of-the-art review

R Xu, C Chen, J Sun, Y He, X Li, MH Lu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Multistable mechanical metamaterials are a type of mechanical metamaterials with special
features, such as reusability, energy storage and absorption capabilities, rapid deformation …

Kirigami-based metastructures with programmable multistability

X Zhang, J Ma, M Li, Z You, X Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Multistability plays an important role in advanced engineering applications such as
metastructures, deployable structures, and reconfigurable robotics. However, most existing …

Bistable structures for advanced functional systems

Y Cao, M Derakhshani, Y Fang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bistable mechanical systems having two local minima of potential energy can rest in either
of the two stable equilibrium states in the absence of external loadings. A snap‐through …