Synergistical mechanical design and function integration for insect-scale on-demand configurable multifunctional soft magnetic robots

X Ke, H Yong, F Xu, Z Chai, J Jiang, X Ni, Z Wu - Soft Robotics, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Meso-or micro-scale (or insect-scale) robots that are capable of realizing flexible locomotion
and/or carrying on complex tasks in a remotely controllable manner hold great promise in …

Untethered small-scale magnetic soft robot with programmable magnetization and integrated multifunctional modules

Y Dong, L Wang, N Xia, Z Yang, C Zhang, C Pan… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Intelligent magnetic soft robots capable of programmable structural changes and
multifunctionality modalities depend on material architectures and methods for controlling …

Design, actuation, and functionalization of untethered soft magnetic robots with life-like motions: A review

J Miao, S Sun - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft robots have demonstrated superior flexibility and functionality than conventional rigid
robots. These versatile devices can respond to a wide range of external stimuli (including …

Magnetic soft robots: Design, actuation, and function

H Wang, Z Zhu, H Jin, R Wei, L Bi, W Zhang - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by advances in soft material science, magnetic soft robots have recently attracted
significant attention owing to their remarkable reprogramming deformations under magnetic …

Analytical modeling and inverse design of centimeter-scale hard-magnetic soft robots

J Wang, D Wang, L Dong, M Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hard-magnetic soft robots can form diverse soft-body deformation modes and safely interact
with their surrounding environment, offering great promise in performing complex functions …

[HTML][HTML] Spreadable magnetic soft robots with on-demand hardening

Z Xu, Y Chen, Q Xu - Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Magnetically actuated mobile robots demonstrate attractive advantages in various medical
applications due to their wireless and programmable executions with tiny sizes. Confronted …

[HTML][HTML] An insect-inspired terrains-adaptive soft millirobot with multimodal locomotion and transportation capability

H Huang, Y Feng, X Yang, L Yang, Y Shen - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inspired by the efficient locomotion of insects in nature, researchers have been developing a
diverse range of soft robots with simulated locomotion. These robots can perform various …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic arthropod soft robot with triboelectric bionic antennae for obstacle identifying and avoidance

A Duan, Z Zhu, M Wang, X Han, K Dai, B Xiong… - Materials & Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Magnetic soft robots exhibit attractive advantages such as nontethered constraints and
remote control capabilities, with broad prospects in environmental exploration, minimally …

[HTML][HTML] Self-vectoring electromagnetic soft robots with high operational dimensionality

W Li, H Chen, Z Yi, F Fang, X Guo, Z Wu, Q Gao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Soft robots capable of flexible deformations and agile locomotion similar to biological
systems are highly desirable for promising applications, including safe human-robot …

Magnetoactive Soft Materials with Programmable Magnetic Domains for Multifunctional Actuators

J Xue, Z Tian, X Xiao, C Du, S Niu… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite considerable progress having been made in the research of soft actuators, there
remains a grand challenge in creating a facile manufacturing process that offers both …