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 …

Flexible electronics: stretchable electrodes and their future

S Huang, Y Liu, Y Zhao, Z Ren… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible electronics, as an emerging and exciting research field, have brought great interest
to the issue of how to make flexible electronic materials that offer both durability and high …

A multifunctional soft robot for cardiac interventions

J Rogatinsky, D Recco, J Feichtmeier, Y Kang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
In minimally invasive endovascular procedures, surgeons rely on catheters with low
dexterity and high aspect ratios to reach an anatomical target. However, the environment …

Biomedical applications of soft robotics

M Cianchetti, C Laschi, A Menciassi… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Soft robotics enables the design of soft machines and devices at different scales. The
compliance and mechanical properties of soft robots make them especially interesting for …

[HTML][HTML] Soft robotics: A review of recent developments of pneumatic soft actuators

J Walker, T Zidek, C Harbel, S Yoon, FS Strickland… - Actuators, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

Toward a common framework and database of materials for soft robotics

L Marechal, P Balland, L Lindenroth, F Petrou… - Soft robotics, 2021 - liebertpub.com
To advance the field of soft robotics, a unified database of material constitutive models and
experimental characterizations is of paramount importance. This will facilitate the use of …

Self-folding soft-robotic chains with reconfigurable shapes and functionalities

H Gu, M Möckli, C Ehmke, M Kim, M Wieland… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic continuum soft robots can actively steer their tip under an external magnetic field,
enabling them to effectively navigate in complex in vivo environments and perform minimally …

Soft robotics: Review of fluid‐driven intrinsically soft devices; manufacturing, sensing, control, and applications in human‐robot interaction

P Polygerinos, N Correll, SA Morin… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging field of soft robotics makes use of many classes of materials including metals,
low glass transition temperature (Tg) plastics, and high Tg elastomers. Dependent on the …

Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities

C Laschi, B Mazzolai, M Cianchetti - Science robotics, 2016 - science.org
The proliferation of soft robotics research worldwide has brought substantial achievements
in terms of principles, models, technologies, techniques, and prototypes of soft robots. Such …