Herein, recent advances, current limitations, and open challenges in the design, modeling,
and control of continuum robots are discussed. Thanks to their lean bodies, these robots …

Recent advances in the rapidly growing field of soft robotics highlight the potential for
innovations in wearable soft robotics to meet challenges and opportunities affecting …

Wearable assistive, rehabilitative, and augmentative devices currently require bulky power
supplies, often making these tools more of a burden than an asset. This work introduces a …

Soft robotic manipulators are continuum robots made of soft materials and flexible
components. The goal of soft robotic manipulators research is to enable these manipulators …

Augmenting the body with artificial limbs controlled concurrently to one's natural limbs has
long appeared in science fiction, but recent technological and neuroscientific advances …

Performing daily interaction tasks such as opening doors and pulling drawers in
unstructured environments is a challenging problem for robots. The emergence of soft …

Supernumerary robotic limbs (SRLs) are wearable robots designed to enhance the
sensorimotor abilities of humans. SRLs can be used to compensate for lost functions in …

Supernumerary robotic limbs (SRLs) are a new type of wearable human auxiliary
equipment, which is currently a hot research topic in the world. SRLs have broad …

This article presents a new modular robotic platform for enabling reconfigurable, actively
controlled, high-degree-of-freedom (high-DoF) systems with compact form factor. The robotic …

In recent years, soft robotics has developed considerably, especially since the year 2018
when it became a hot field among current research topics. The attention that this field …