A review on self-healing polymers for soft robotics

S Terryn, J Langenbach, E Roels, J Brancart… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The intrinsic compliance of soft robots provides safety, a natural adaptation to its
environment, allows to absorb shocks, and protects them against mechanical impacts …

Elastic inflatable actuators for soft robotic applications

B Gorissen, D Reynaerts, S Konishi… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The 20th century's robotic systems have been made from stiff materials, and much of the
developments have pursued ever more accurate and dynamic robots, which thrive in …

Soft robotics in minimally invasive surgery

M Runciman, A Darzi, GP Mylonas - Soft robotics, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Soft robotic devices have desirable traits for applications in minimally invasive surgery (MIS),
but many interdisciplinary challenges remain unsolved. To understand current technologies …

Intelligent soft surgical robots for next‐generation minimally invasive surgery

J Zhu, L Lyu, Y Xu, H Liang, X Zhang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Endowed with the expected visions for future surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has
become one of the most rapid develo** areas in modern surgery. Soft robotics, which …

[HTML][HTML] Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for biomedical soft robots

Y Yang, P Jiao - Materials Today Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft robots have opened an emerging research direction in robotics due to their promising
performance enabled by functional materials and fabrication technology. Recent progress of …

3D/4D-printed bending-type soft pneumatic actuators: Fabrication, modelling, and control

A Zolfagharian, MAP Mahmud, S Gharaie… - Virtual and Physical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article reviews soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) that are manufactured entirely via
additive manufacturing methods. These actuators are known as four-dimensional (4D) …

Advancements in soft robotics: A comprehensive review on actuation methods, materials, and applications

Y Wang, Y Wang, RT Mushtaq, Q Wei - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
The flexibility and adaptability of soft robots enable them to perform various tasks in
changing environments, such as flower picking, fruit harvesting, in vivo targeted treatment …

A digital light processing 3D printer for fast and high-precision fabrication of soft pneumatic actuators

L Ge, L Dong, D Wang, Q Ge, G Gu - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we built up a desktop digital light processing (DLP) 3D printer and fabricated
multiple size soft pneumatic actuators integrally with fast speed and high precision. The …

Self-shrinking soft demoulding for complex high-aspect-ratio microchannels

D Fan, X Yuan, W Wu, R Zhu, X Yang, Y Liao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microchannels are the essential elements in animals, plants, and various artificial devices
such as soft robotics, wearable sensors, and organs-on-a-chip. However, three-dimensional …

[PDF][PDF] Soft robotics with compliance and adaptation for biomedical applications and forthcoming challenges

H Banerjee, ZTH Tse, H Ren - Int. J. Robot. Autom, 2018 - researchgate.net
Biology has always motivated engineers to come up with efficient and reliable machines to
move in complex environments. The dexterity, softness, and body compliance of natural …