Advanced technologies and applications of robotic soft grippers

J Qu, Z Yu, W Tang, Y Xu, B Mao… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The robotic soft gripper is a significant and expanding area of study. It is primarily a unique
gadget that interacts with the external environment in a certain actuating mode by utilizing …

Entropy‐mediated polymer–cluster interactions enable dramatic thermal stiffening hydrogels for mechanoadaptive smart fabrics

J Wu, B Wu, J **ong, S Sun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal stiffening materials that are naturally soft but adaptively self‐strengthen upon heat
are intriguing for load‐bearing and self‐protection applications at elevated temperatures …

Transparent, Highly Stretchable, Self‐Healing, Adhesive, Freezing‐Tolerant, and Swelling‐Resistant Multifunctional Hydrogels for Underwater Motion Detection and …

Z Zhang, A Yao, P Raffa - Advanced Functional Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conductive hydrogels have emerged as fascinating materials for flexible electronics
because of their integrated conductivity, mechanical flexibility, and the possibility to …

Bionic light-responsive hydrogel actuators with multiple-freedom motions in water environments

Y Li, Z Tian, C Li, Z Li, ZZ Yu, D Yang - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Soft actuators with biomimetic behavior have widely been utilized in intelligent robotics and
artificial muscles. Herein, tannic acid (TA) non-covalently modified and γ-methacrylic …

Starfish‐Inspired Cut‐Resistant Hydrogel with Self‐Growing Armor: Where Softness Meets Toughness

Y Zhao, Y Chen, X Song, Y Li, L Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many soft animals like starfish have developed armors to protect their soft bodies in order to
survive in harsh environment. Inspired by this fact, special hydrogels with self‐growing …

[HTML][HTML] A soft, sensorized gripper for delicate harvesting of small fruits

F Visentin, F Castellini, R Muradore - Computers and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Harvesting fruits and vegetables is a complex task worth to be fully automated with robotic
systems. It involves several precision tasks that have to be performed with accuracy and the …

Magnetic field assisted fabrication of asymmetric hydrogels for complex shape deformable actuators

C Gong, Y Zhai, J Zhou, Y Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogel actuators exhibit various motions such as contraction, expansion, bending, and
rotation in response to external stimuli, and have potential applications in artificial muscles …

Magnetorheological elastomer actuated multi-stable gripper reinforced stiffness with twisted and coiled polymer

W Ding, Y Zhou, M Sun, H Fu, Y Chen, Z Zhang… - Thin-Walled …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study proposes a magnetorheological elastomer actuated multi-stable gripper
reinforced stiffness with twisted and coiled polymer. The multi-stable gripper can conform …

Optically Responsive Hydrogel with Rapid Deformation for Motion Regulation of Magnetic Actuators

Z Tian, C Du, J Xue, Y Liu - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Optically and magnetically responsive soft actuators are gaining attention for their
noncontact actuation, flexibility, and remote control capabilities. However, they face …

A plant tendril-like soft robot that grasps and anchors by exploiting its material arrangement

F Meder, SPM Babu, B Mazzolai - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Some climbing plants use tendrils as efficient strategies to anchor and support their weights
while they move in unstructured environments. In this letter, we mimic the essential functions …