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 …

Modeling, learning, perception, and control methods for deformable object manipulation

H Yin, A Varava, D Kragic - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
Perceiving and handling deformable objects is an integral part of everyday life for humans.
Automating tasks such as food handling, garment sorting, or assistive dressing requires …

Soft robots modeling: A structured overview

C Armanini, F Boyer, AT Mathew… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The robotics community has seen an exponential growth in the level of complexity of the
theoretical tools presented for the modeling of soft robotics devices. Different solutions have …

Leap hand: Low-cost, efficient, and anthropomorphic hand for robot learning

K Shaw, A Agarwal, D Pathak - ar** in medical computer vision: A review
A Schmidt, O Mohareri, S DiMaio, MC Yip… - Medical Image …, 2024 - Elsevier
As computer vision algorithms increase in capability, their applications in clinical systems
will become more pervasive. These applications include: diagnostics, such as colonoscopy …

On the use of simulation in robotics: Opportunities, challenges, and suggestions for moving forward

HS Choi, C Crump, C Duriez, A Elmquist… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
The last five years marked a surge in interest for and use of smart robots, which operate in
dynamic and unstructured environments and might interact with humans. We posit that well …

Unfolding the literature: A review of robotic cloth manipulation

A Longhini, Y Wang, I Garcia-Camacho… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The realm of textiles spans clothing, households, healthcare, sports, and industrial
applications. The deformable nature of these objects poses unique challenges that prior …

From bioinspiration to computer generation: Developments in autonomous soft robot design

J Pinskier, D Howard - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging field of soft robotics presents a new paradigm for robot design in which
“precision through rigidity” is replaced by “cognition through compliance.” Lightweight and …

igibson 2.0: Object-centric simulation for robot learning of everyday household tasks

C Li, F **a, R Martín-Martín, M Lingelbach… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent research in embodied AI has been boosted by the use of simulation environments to
develop and train robot learning approaches. However, the use of simulation has skewed …