Herein, recent advances, current limitations, and open challenges in the design, modeling,
and control of continuum robots are discussed. Thanks to their lean bodies, these robots …

Robotic artificial muscles are a subset of artificial muscles that are capable of producing
biologically inspired motions useful for robot systems, ie, large power-to-weight ratios …

In minimally invasive endovascular procedures, surgeons rely on catheters with low
dexterity and high aspect ratios to reach an anatomical target. However, the environment …

Stiffness is a mechanical property of vital importance to any material system and is typically
considered a static quantity. Recent work, however, has shown that novel materials with …

The past decade of soft robotics has delivered impactful and promising contributions to
society and has seen exponentially increasing interest from scientists and engineers. This …

Continuum robots featured by super dexterity and flexibility are excellent candidates for
operations in confined environments. However, accurate modeling of continuum robots has …

Background Soft materials, with their compliant properties, enable conformity and safe
interaction with human body. With the advance in actuation and sensing of soft materials …

Cable-driven continuum robots with hyper-redundant deformable backbones show great
promise in applications, such as inspection in unstructured environments, where traditional …

Compliant continuum robots (CCRs) have slender and elastic bodies. Compared with a
traditional serial robot, they have more degrees of freedom and can deform their flexible …

Performance of robot-assisted endovascular surgery (ES) remains highly dependent on an
individual surgeon's skills, due to common adoption of master-slave robotic structure …