A soft neuroprosthetic hand providing simultaneous myoelectric control and tactile feedback

G Gu, N Zhang, H Xu, S Lin, Y Yu, G Chai… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroprosthetic hands are typically heavy (over 400 g) and expensive (more than US
$10,000), and lack the compliance and tactile feedback of human hands. Here, we report the …

X-crossing pneumatic artificial muscles

M Feng, D Yang, L Ren, G Wei, G Gu - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Artificial muscles are promising in soft exoskeletons, locomotion robots, and operation
machines. However, their performance in contraction ratio, output force, and dynamic …

Fully wearable actuated soft exoskeleton for gras** assistance in everyday activities

T Bützer, O Lambercy, J Arata, R Gassert - Soft robotics, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Worldwide, over 50 million people suffer from persistent hand impairments after stroke or
spinal cord injury (SCI). This results in major loss of independence and quality of life …

Design optimization of soft robots: A review of the state of the art

F Chen, MY Wang - IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotics has undergone a profound revolution in the past 50 years, moving from the
laboratory and research institute to the factory and home. Kinematics and dynamics theories …

Textiles in soft robots: Current progress and future trends

C Fu, Z **a, C Hurren, A Nilghaz, X Wang - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft robotics have substantial benefits of safety, adaptability, and cost efficiency compared to
conventional rigid robotics. Textiles have applications in soft robotics either as an auxiliary …

Soft robotics enables neuroprosthetic hand design

G Gu, N Zhang, C Chen, H Xu, X Zhu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Development and implementation of neuroprosthetic hands is a multidisciplinary field at the
interface between humans and artificial robotic systems, which aims at replacing the …

Bioinspired and Hierarchically Textile‐Structured Soft Actuators for Healthcare Wearables

M Yang, J Wu, W Jiang, X Hu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soft pneumatic actuators possess the increasing potential for various healthcare
applications, such as smart wearable devices, safe human‐robot interaction, and flexible …

Stiffness-tunable soft gripper with soft-rigid hybrid actuation for versatile manipulations

L Li, F **e, T Wang, G Wang, Y Tian, T **, Q Zhang - Soft Robotics, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Highly flexible and environmentally adaptive soft robots have received considerable
attention. There remains a demand for soft robots to realize the stiffness modulation and …