Advances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid
progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented …

The soft robotics field is changing the way people think, build, interact, and most importantly
perceive robots. Robots have long been perceived as machines made of metals that their …

Soft pneumatic actuators and motor-based mechanisms being concomitant with the
cumbersome appendages have many challenges to making the independent robotic system …

Unlike traditional hard grippers, soft robotic grippers are commonly made of soft materials so
that the soft grippers can produce motion via elastic deformations of their compliant …

Develo** soft actuators and sensors by means of 3D printing has become an exciting
research area. Compared to conventional methods, 3D printing enables rapid prototy** …

In this paper, a purely data-driven modelling approach is presented for predicting and
controlling the free bending angle response of a typical soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) …

Designing softness into robots holds great potential for augmenting robotic compliance in
dynamic, unstructured environments. However, despite the body's softness, existing models …

The one-dimensional deformation of shape memory alloy (SMA) wires and springs can be
implemented into different types of functional structures with three-dimensional …

ROBEL is an open-source platform of cost-effective robots designed for reinforcement
learning in the real world. ROBEL introduces two robots, each aimed to accelerate …

Numerous soft grippers have been developed based on smart materials, pneumatic soft
actuators, and underactuated compliant structures. In this article, we present a three …