Control strategies for soft robot systems

J Wang, A Chortos - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots have recently attracted increased attention because their characteristics of low‐
cost fabrication, durability, and deformability make them uniquely suited for applications in …

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 …

Soft robot review

C Lee, M Kim, YJ Kim, N Hong, S Ryu, HJ Kim… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Soft robots are often inspired from biological systems which consist of soft materials or are
actuated by electrically activated materials. There are several advantages of soft robots …

Recent advances on underwater soft robots

J Qu, Y Xu, Z Li, Z Yu, B Mao, Y Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean environment has enormous uncertainty due to the influence of complex waves
and undercurrents. The human beings are limited in their abilities to detect and utilize …

Soft robots manufacturing: A review

F Schmitt, O Piccin, L Barbé, B Bayle - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The growing interest in soft robots comes from the new possibilities offered by these systems
to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies. Many …

Stiffening in soft robotics: A review of the state of the art

M Manti, V Cacucciolo… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need for building robots with soft materials emerged recently from considerations of the
limitations of service robots in negotiating natural environments, from observation of the role …

Intelligent soft surgical robots for next‐generation minimally invasive surgery

J Zhu, L Lyu, Y Xu, H Liang, X Zhang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Endowed with the expected visions for future surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has
become one of the most rapid develo** areas in modern surgery. Soft robotics, which …

Bio‐inspired soft grippers based on impactive grip**

L Zhou, L Ren, Y Chen, S Niu, Z Han… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gras** and manipulation are fundamental ways for many creatures to interact with their
environments. Different morphologies and gras** methods of “grippers” are highly …

Fundamentals of soft robot locomotion

M Calisti, G Picardi, C Laschi - Journal of The Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Soft robotics and its related technologies enable robot abilities in several robotics domains
including, but not exclusively related to, manipulation, manufacturing, human–robot …