Abstract Machines are systems that harness input power to extend or advance function.
Fundamentally, machines are based on the integration of materials with mechanisms to …

Over the last two decades, smart materials have received significant attention over a broad
range of engineering applications because of their unique and inherent characteristics for …

Actuators are ubiquitous to generate controlled motion through the application of suitable
excitation force or torque to perform various operations in manufacturing and industrial …

Animals provide inspiration for develo** soft machines in bionics, robotics research as
well as potential applications. This paper presents an integrated development of locomotive …

Abstract High strength Ti–Ni shape memory alloy had been manufactured by hot-pressed
sintering of Ti–Ni alloy powders. Due to the higher temperature sintering and assisted with …

This article presents a comparative analysis of four numerical approaches—Newton
Raphson method, trust region dogleg method, implicit solver (IS) based method considering …

This study presents series shape memory alloy (SMA) wire actuators featuring different
martensitic–austenitic phase transformation temperatures for input sha** control of flexible …

This Paper presented a new dual stage bending dexterous robotic hand whose soft
composite finger (SCF) was consisted of a soft composite structure and a solid hinge both …