Flexible and stretchable antennas for biointegrated electronics

Z **e, R Avila, Y Huang, JA Rogers - Advanced Materials, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Combined advances in material science, mechanical engineering, and electrical
engineering form the foundations of thin, soft electronic/optoelectronic platforms that have …

Continuum robots for manipulation applications: A survey

S Kolachalama, S Lakshmanan - Journal of Robotics, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a literature survey documenting the evolution of continuum robots over
the past two decades (1999–present). Attention is paid to bioinspired soft robots with respect …

Controlling subterranean forces enables a fast, steerable, burrowing soft robot

ND Naclerio, A Karsai, M Murray-Cooper… - Science Robotics, 2021‏ - science.org
Robotic navigation on land, through air, and in water is well researched; numerous robots
have successfully demonstrated motion in these environments. However, one frontier for …

A comparative review of artificial muscles for microsystem applications

M Shi, EM Yeatman - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2021‏ - nature.com
Artificial muscles are capable of generating actuation in microsystems with outstanding
compliance. Recent years have witnessed a growing academic interest in artificial muscles …

Design, modeling, control, and application of everting vine robots

LH Blumenschein, MM Coad, DA Haggerty… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
In nature, tip-localized growth allows navigation in tightly confined environments and
creation of structures. Recently, this form of movement has been artificially realized through …

Multistable origami honeycomb

Y Li, F Pan, X Lin, K Yang, Y Ren, W Yang… - International Journal of …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Increasing energy and space utilization efficiency is crucial for lightweight shape-
reconfigurable materials/structures that require tunable functions and multiple applications …

World's first spaceflight on-orbit demonstration of a flexible solar array system based on shape memory polymer composites

X Lan, LW Liu, FH Zhang, ZX Liu, LL Wang… - Science China …, 2020‏ - Springer
With a 10% reversible compressive strain in more than 10 deformation cycles, the shape
memory polymer composites (SMPCs) could be used for deployable structure and releasing …

Zero‐Power Shape Retention in Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Extensional and Bending Multistability

S Rahman, L Wu, A El Elmi… - Advanced Functional …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Power‐free shape retention enables soft pneumatic robots to reduce energy cost and avoid
unexpected collapse due to burst or puncture. Existing strategies for pneumatic actuation …

Mammobot: A miniature steerable soft growing robot for early breast cancer detection

P Berthet-Rayne, SMH Sadati, G Petrou… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents MAMMOBOT, one of the first millimetre-scale steerable soft growing
robots for medical applications. MAMMOBOT aims to access the breast through the nipple …

Recent development of flexible and stretchable antennas for bio-integrated electronics

J Zhu, H Cheng - Sensors, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Wireless technology plays an important role in data communication and power transmission,
which has greatly boosted the development of flexible and stretchable electronics for …