Soft robotics is an exciting field of science and technology that enables robots to manipulate
objects with human-like dexterity. Soft robots can handle delicate objects with care, access …

The surge in advanced manufacturing techniques has led to a paradigm shift in the realm of
material design from developing completely new chemistry to tailoring geometry within …

Miniature robots show great potential in exploring narrow and confined spaces to perform
various tasks, but many applications are limited by the dependence of these robots on …

This letter introduces a novel bistable origami flexible gripper, which is based on a single-
vertex and multi-crease (SVMC) origami structure that has several advantages, including a …

Continuously increasing applications of robot technologies in unstructured environments put
higher requirements on the robotic grippers' performance, such as interaction capability …

Snap-through instability, like the rapid closure of the Venus flytrap, is gaining attention in
robotics and HCI. It offers rapid shape reconfiguration, self-sensing, actuation, and …

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

Actuators utilizing snap‐through instabilities are widely investigated for high‐performance
fast actuators and shape reconfigurable structures owing to their rapid response and limited …

While the majority of pneumatic interfaces are powered and controlled by traditional electric
pumps and valves, alternative sustainable energy-harnessing technology has been …

Bioinspired, bistable snap-through structures are promising to release a burst of mechanical
energy transformed from chemical energy, stored, and released incrementally during …