3D-printed PEDOT: PSS for soft robotics

J Li, J Cao, B Lu, G Gu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Soft robotics is an emerging technology requiring conductive materials with inherently high
compliance to sense, control or actuate. Poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene): polystyrene …

Soft pneumatic actuators: A review of design, fabrication, modeling, sensing, control and applications

MS Xavier, CD Tawk, A Zolfagharian, J Pinskier… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotics is a rapidly evolving field where robots are fabricated using highly deformable
materials and usually follow a bioinspired design. Their high dexterity and safety make them …

Processing of self‐healing polymers for soft robotics

E Roels, S Terryn, F Iida, AW Bosman… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots are, due to their softness, inherently safe and adapt well to unstructured
environments. However, they are prone to various damage types. Self‐healing polymers …

PneumaOCT: Pneumatic optical coherence tomography endoscopy for targeted distortion-free imaging in tortuous and narrow internal lumens

T Zhang, S Yuan, C Xu, P Liu, HC Chang, SHC Ng… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The complex anatomy of internal luminal organs, like bronchioles, poses challenges for
endoscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT). These challenges include limited …

Multimodal soft robotic actuation and locomotion

DR Yao, I Kim, S Yin, W Gao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Diverse and adaptable modes of complex motion observed at different scales in living
creatures are challenging to reproduce in robotic systems. Achieving dexterous movement …

Bioinspired multimodal multipose hybrid fingers for wide-range force, compliant, and stable gras**

J Zhu, Z Chai, H Yong, Y Xu, C Guo, H Ding, Z Wu - Soft robotics, 2023 - liebertpub.com
The increasing demand for gras** diverse objects in unstructured environments poses
severe challenges to the existing soft/rigid robotic fingers due to the issues in balancing …

Innovations in Minimally Invasive Surgery: The Rise of Smart Flexible Surgical Robots

R Barua - Emerging Technologies for Health Literacy and …, 2024 - igi-global.com
The field of surgical robotics has been rapidly advancing, with a focus on improving
minimally invasive surgery techniques. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is characterized by …

A Novel Distal Hybrid Pneumatic/Cable‐Driven Continuum Joint with Variable Stiffness Capacity for Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

X Luo, D Song, Z Zhang, S Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The robot‐assisted flexible access surgery represented by the emerging robot‐assisted
flexible endoscopy (FE) and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery demands …

Programmable thermochromic soft actuators with “two dimensional” bilayer architectures for soft robotics

Y Zhong, W Tang, C Zhang, Z Jiao, D Wu, W Liu… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft robots have unique advantages in the fields including human-machine interaction and
bionics, yet there remain persistent challenges in develo** multifunctional, programmable …

3D Printing of Covalent Adaptable Networks: Overview, Applications and Future Prospects

V Bijalwan, S Rana, GJ Yun, KP Singh, M Jamil… - Polymer …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract 3D printing, a rapidly growing material processing technique has found its broad
applications in construction, automobiles, robotics, domestic usage and in biomedical …