Soft robots offer a myriad of potential because of their intrinsically compliant bodies,
enabling safe interactions with humans and adaptability to unpredictable environments …

Soft inflatable robots are a promising paradigm for applications that benefit from their
inherent safety and adaptability. However, for perception, complex connections of rigid …

The growing need for soft robots with secure, adaptive, and autonomous functioning in
unforeseen environments favors designs with multiple functionalities. This has driven soft …

Fluidic soft actuators are enlarging the robotics toolbox by providing flexible elements that
can display highly complex deformations. Although these actuators are adaptable and …

Conventional soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are made of soft materials that facilitate safe
interaction and adaptability. In positioning and loading tasks, however, SPAs demonstrate …

Creating high‐speed soft actuators will have broad engineering and technological
applications. Snapping provides a power‐amplified mechanism to achieve rapid movements …

Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are intrinsically light-weight, compliant and therefore ideal
to directly interact with humans and be implemented into wearable robotic devices …

Octopuses can whip their soft arms with a characteristic “bend propagation” motion to
capture prey with sensitive suckers. This relatively simple strategy provides models for …

Soft robotics has yielded numerous examples of soft grippers that utilize compliance to
achieve impressive grasping performances with great simplicity, adaptability, and …

Matching the rich multimodality of natural organisms, ie, the ability to transition between
crawling and swimming, walking and jumping, etc., represents a grand challenge in the …