Comprehensive review of recent research trends in dielectric elastomer transducers: applications, materials, and fabrication

H Gu - Materials Research Express, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Although rigid transducers have led to innovations in industrial automation and control
systems, their rigidity limits them to the controlled environment of the factory. Recently, soft …

Stretchable and soft electroadhesion and capacitive sensors enabled by spider web-inspired interdigitated liquid metal subsurface microwires

S Kim, S Lee, P Bhuyan, Y Wei, S Kim… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Stretchable and soft electronic devices with the ability to sense objects and adhere to
surfaces, similar to spider webs, are promising for creating soft robotic systems. In this study …

Development of a novel variable-curvature soft gripper used for orientating broccoli in the trimming line

Y Ye, C Han, S Kang, J Zhao, RBN Scharff… - … and Electronics in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Orientating the broccoli plays an important part in the trimming line, which helps reduce the
redundant stalk length and provides accurate throughput data for sale. However, this work is …

A versatile and high-load soft gripper enabled by vacuum-assisted bio-inspired interfacial adhesion

T Sun, W Chen, J Li, X Li, X Li, Y Meng… - Smart Materials and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Soft robotic grippers have gained considerable attention owing to their highly compliant,
adaptive, and safe characteristics in a large variety of scenes, especially involving human …

A jelly-like artificial muscle for an untethered underwater robot

X Li, D Rao, M Zhang, Y Xue, X Cao, S Yin… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2024 - cell.com
Underwater robots desire versatile, water-adaptive, untethered, and rapidly actuating soft
artificial muscles. Existing artificial muscles compromise between high water compatibility …

Soft Grip**: Specifying for Trustworthiness

DB Abeywickrama, NH Le, G Chance… - 2024 IEEE 7th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotics is an emerging technology in which engineers create flexible devices for use in
a variety of applications. In order to advance the wide adoption of soft robots, ensuring their …

GAgent: An Adaptive Rigid-Soft Grip** Agent with Vision Language Models for Complex Lighting Environments

Z Li, M Zhang, X Lin, M Yin, S Lu, X Wang - ar** Agent designed for open-world environments
that provides advanced cognitive abilities via VLM agents and flexible gras** abilities with …

Vibration Analysis of a Soft Hydrodynamic Manipulator

SJ Maliha, TH Nehal, S Ahmed, MH Hasan - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Soft robotic manipulators, driven by fluidic actuation, surpass rigid counterparts with
increased degrees of freedom, enabling exploration of intricate workspaces. Despite …

Dielectric elastomer actuator with electro adhesion for a vibration excitation of a conductive structure

T Hiruta, J Ohno, K Takagi - Electroactive Polymer Actuators …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This study proposes a vibration excitation technique using a dielectric elastomer actuator
(DEA) that can attach to a conductive structure based on an electro adhesion technique …