This paper focuses on the recent development of soft pneumatic actuators for soft robotics
over the past few years, concentrating on the following four categories: control systems …

Conventionally, engineers have employed rigid materials to fabricate precise, predictable
robotic systems, which are easily modelled as rigid members connected at discrete joints …

Animals exploit soft structures to move effectively in complex natural environments. These
capabilities have inspired robotic engineers to incorporate soft technologies into their …

The new and promising field of soft robotics has many open areas of research such as the
development of an exhaustive theoretical and methodological approach to dynamic …

There are two major structural paradigms in robotics: soft machines, which are conformable,
durable, and safe; and traditional rigid robots, which are fast, precise, and capable of …

Traditional robots have rigid underlying structures that limit their ability to interact with their
environment. For example, conventional robot manipulators have rigid links and can …

The emerging generation of robots composed of soft materials strives to match biological
motor adaptation skills via shape-shifting. Soft robots often harness volumetric expansion …

This study examines a biology-inspired approach of using reconfigurable articulation to
reduce the control requirement for soft robotic arms. We construct a robotic arm by …

Hyper-redundant manipulators can be fragile, expensive, and limited in their flexibility due to
the distributed and bulky actuators that are typically used to achieve the precision and …

Octopuses have impressive manipulation capabilities empowered by the intrinsic adaptation
of their soft arms combined with distributed suckers. Drawing inspiration from the arm …