[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in hard-magnetic soft composites: Synthesis, characterisation, computational modelling, and applications

S Lucarini, M Hossain, D Garcia-Gonzalez - Composite Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Hard-magnetic soft composites consist of magneto-active polymers (MAPs) where the fillers
are composed of hard-magnetic (magnetically polarised) particles. These novel …

Multifunctional magnetic soft composites: A review

S Wu, W Hu, Q Ze, M Sitti, R Zhao - Multifunctional materials, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetically responsive soft materials are soft composites where magnetic fillers are
embedded into soft polymeric matrices. These active materials have attracted extensive …

Recent advances on underwater soft robots

J Qu, Y Xu, Z Li, Z Yu, B Mao, Y Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean environment has enormous uncertainty due to the influence of complex waves
and undercurrents. The human beings are limited in their abilities to detect and utilize …

Decade of bio-inspired soft robots: A review

F Ahmed, M Waqas, B Jawed… - Smart Materials and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Soft robotics is an emerging field of robotics that focuses on the design of soft machines and
devices with effective human-machine interaction, high conformity, and environmental …

Reconfigurable magnetic soft robots with multimodal locomotion

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W Liu, X Bai, H Yang, R Bao… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter introduces a novel bistable origami flexible gripper, which is based on a single-
vertex and multi-crease (SVMC) origami structure that has several advantages, including a …

A review of magnetic elastomers and their role in soft robotics

N Bira, P Dhagat, JR Davidson - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Soft robotics as a field of study incorporates different mechanisms, control schemes, as well
as multifunctional materials to realize robots able to perform tasks inaccessible to traditional …

Multimodal locomotion control of needle-like microrobots assembled by ferromagnetic nanoparticles

T Xu, Z Hao, C Huang, J Yu, L Zhang… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microrobots have great potential for multiple applications, such as targeted drug delivery
and micromanipulation. Several kinds of microrobots assembled by nanoparticles have …

Automatic navigation of microswarms for dynamic obstacle avoidance

Y Liu, H Chen, Q Zou, X Du, Y Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control and navigation of microrobotic swarms have drawn extensive attention recently.
Avoiding dynamic obstacles using swarms is one of the major challenges that still remain …

An underwater bionic crab soft robot with multidirectional controllable motion ability

Q Li, T Chen, Y Chen, Z Wang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft robots driven by stimuli-responsive materials have unique advantages over
conventional rigid robots, especially in terms of high adaptability for underwater exploration …