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 …

Gras** and manipulation are fundamental ways for many creatures to interact with their
environments. Different morphologies and gras** methods of “grippers” are highly …

Jamming is a popular and versatile soft robotic mechanism, enabling new systems to be
developed that can achieve high stiffness variation with minimal volume variation …

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 …

Continuum robots exhibit promising adaptability and dexterity for soft manipulation due to
their intrinsic compliance. However, this compliance may lead to challenges in modeling as …

Soft robot arms possess unique capabilities when it comes to adaptability, flexibility, and
dexterity. In addition, soft systems that are pneumatically actuated can claim high power-to …

Continuum robots with redundant degrees of freedom and postactuated devices are suitable
for application in aerospace, nuclear facilities, and other narrow and multiobstacle special …

Continuum robots have become more popular recently due to their scalable dexterity and
mobility. However, they may suffer from issues like insufficient stiffness because they are …

We present Haptic Links, electro-mechanically actuated physical connections capable of
rendering variable stiffness between two commodity handheld virtual reality (VR) controllers …

Jamming is a structural phenomenon that provides tunable mechanical behavior. A jamming
structure typically consists of a collection of elements with low effective stiffness and …