Advances in additive manufacturing techniques have enabled the creation of stimuli-
responsive materials with designed three-dimensional (3D) architectures. Unlike biological …

Mobility and robustness are two important features for practical applications of robots. Soft
robots made of polymeric materials have the potential to achieve both attributes …

Miniature piezoelectric robots exhibit superior performances and have been favored by
many researchers, however, there is an intractable contradiction between nano-resolution …

For miniature piezoelectric robots, it is difficult to realize multi-degree-of-freedom motion with
a simple structure. In this article, a novel ring-shaped tripodal piezoelectric robot (RTPR) is …

The unusual ability of geckos to climb vertical walls underlies a unique combination of a
hierarchical structural design and a stiffer material composition. While a dense array of …

Wireless motion and large capacity are two important characteristics for practical
applications of the miniature robots, and become more challenging as the decrease of the …

This article describes the design, manufacture, and performance of a prototype miniature
resonant ambulatory robot that uses piezoelectric actuators to achieve locomotion. Each leg …

Self-running piezoelectric robots have the advantages of being low cost, high load ratio and
fast speed of operation, as well as showing few limitations in confined spaces or for …

In this paper, we developed a kinematic model for a legged piezoelectric miniature robot
driven by standing wave. The robot consists of a piezoelectric bending actuator with rigidly …

In this paper, a concept design of a novel traveling wave driven piezoelectric plate robot
(TWDPPR) for planar motion is presented. The TWDPPR consists of an aluminum plate …