Novel technologies, fabrication methods, controllers and computational methods are rapidly
advancing the capabilities of soft robotics. This is creating the need for design techniques …

Human hands are amazingly skilled at recognizing and handling objects of different sizes
and shapes. To date, soft robots rarely demonstrate autonomy equivalent to that of humans …

State-of-the-art biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery and laparoscopic
surgery are extremely challenging because of the small length scales, the requirements of …

Steering soft robots in a self-regulated manner remains a grand challenge, which often
requires continuous symmetry breaking and recovery steps for persistent motion. Although …

Soft fluidic robots have attracted a lot of attention and have broad application prospects.
However, poor fluidic power source and easy to damage have been hindering their …

Intuitive, efficient, and unconstrained interactions require human–machine interfaces (HMIs)
to accurately recognize users' manipulation intents. Susceptibility to interference and …

By incorporating soft materials into the architecture, flexible mechanical metamaterials
enable promising applications, eg, energy modulation, and shape morphing, with a well …

High precision control of soft robots is challenging due to their stohcastic behavior and
material-dependent nature. While RL has been applied in soft robotics, achieving precision …

Since its beginnings in the 1960s, soft robotics has been a steadily growing field that has
enjoyed recent growth with the advent of rapid prototy** and the provision of new flexible …

Resilience is crucial for the self-preservation of biological systems: Humans recover from
wounds thanks to an immune system that autonomously enacts a multistage response to …