A review of soft manipulator research, applications, and opportunities

X Chen, X Zhang, Y Huang, L Cao… - Journal of Field …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Soft manipulator is a kind of special manipulator that uses soft material or flexible structure to
perform manipulation task under the specific drive mode inspired by the soft tissue. It is …

A review of magnetic actuation systems and magnetically actuated guidewire-and catheter-based microrobots for vascular interventions

J Hwang, J Kim, H Choi - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2020‏ - Springer
Magnetic actuation techniques and microrobots have attracted considerable interest due to
their potential applications in biomedicine. Interventional techniques have emerged as a …

Evolutionary design of magnetic soft continuum robots

L Wang, D Zheng, P Harker, AB Patel, CF Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
Worldwide cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and heart disease are the leading cause
of mortality. While guidewire/catheter-based minimally invasive surgery is used to treat a …

Solid–liquid state transformable magnetorheological millirobot

Z Chen, W Lu, Y Li, P Liu, Y Yang… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Magnetically actuated soft millirobots (magneto-robot) capable of accomplishing on-demand
tasks in a remote-control manner using noninvasive magnetic fields are of great interest in …

Magnetic soft continuum robots with contact forces

L Wang, CF Guo, X Zhao - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The emerging magnetic soft continuum robots (MSCRs)–a type of slender magnetoactive
soft rods that can be steered remotely by magnetic fields–hold great potential in …

A learnt approach for the design of magnetically actuated shape forming soft tentacle robots

P Lloyd, AK Hoshiar, T da Veiga… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft continuum robots have the potential to revolutionize minimally invasive surgery. The
challenges for such robots are ubiquitous; functioning within sensitive, unstructured and …

Modeling magnetic soft continuum robot in nonuniform magnetic fields via energy minimization

J Li, L Wang - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The emerging magnetic soft continuum robots (MSCRs)–a type of slender and soft rods with
embedded hard-magnetic particles–hold great promise in endovascular intervention via …

Magnetic needle steering in soft phantom tissue

M Ilami, RJ Ahmed, A Petras, B Beigzadeh, H Marvi - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
Needle steering is a technology for guiding needles around sensitive internal obstacles in
minimally invasive surgery. Traditional techniques apply rotation at the base of a needle with …

A magnetic-controlled flexible continuum robot with different deformation modes for vascular interventional navigation surgery

Z Wang, D Weng, Z Li, L Chen, Y Ma, J Wang - Actuators, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
A magnetic-controlled flexible continuum robot (MFCR) is a kind of continuum robot with
small-size and flexibility that deforms under controlled magnetic fields, which makes MFCRs …

Scaling effects of manufacturing processes and actuation sources on control of remotely powered micro actuators

JK Heo, Kausthubharam, M Jung… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past decade, remotely powered micro actuators have gained increased attention
for biomedical and environmental remediation applications, owing to their ability to access …