Soft robotics is an exciting field of science and technology that enables robots to manipulate
objects with human-like dexterity. Soft robots can handle delicate objects with care, access …

In the past few years, soft robotics has rapidly become an emerging research topic, opening
new possibilities for addressing real‐world tasks. Perception can enable robots to effectively …

Continuum robots provide inherent structural compliance with high dexterity to access the
surgical target sites along tortuous anatomical paths under constrained environments and …

In the field of robotics, soft robots have been showing great potential in the areas of medical
care, education, service, rescue, exploration, detection, and wearable devices due to their …

This paper presents a literature survey documenting the evolution of continuum robots over
the past two decades (1999–present). Attention is paid to bioinspired soft robots with respect …

Over the past decade, soft actuators have received enormous interest for potential
applications in artificial muscles, soft grippers, wearable devices, minimally invasive surgery …

Owing to the remarkable properties of the somatosensory system, human skin compactly
perceives myriad forms of physical stimuli with high precision. Machines, conversely, are …

While soft material actuators can undergo large deformations to execute very complex
motions, what is critically lacking in soft material robotic systems is the ability to collect high …

Soft robotics is an emerging field that takes advantage of compliant materials and makes
use of nonstandard actuators. Flexible fluid actuators (FFAs) use fluid pressure to produce …

Wearable optical fiber sensors have great potential for development in medical monitoring.
With the increasing demand for compactness, comfort, accuracy, and other features in new …