Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots

B Shih, D Shah, J Li, TG Thuruthel, YL Park, F Iida… - Science Robotics, 2020 - science.org
Soft robots have garnered interest for real-world applications because of their intrinsic safety
embedded at the material level. These robots use deformable materials capable of shape …

Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities

C Laschi, B Mazzolai, M Cianchetti - Science robotics, 2016 - science.org
The proliferation of soft robotics research worldwide has brought substantial achievements
in terms of principles, models, technologies, techniques, and prototypes of soft robots. Such …

Soft robot review

C Lee, M Kim, YJ Kim, N Hong, S Ryu, HJ Kim… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Soft robots are often inspired from biological systems which consist of soft materials or are
actuated by electrically activated materials. There are several advantages of soft robots …

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

D Rus, MT Tolley - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Conventionally, engineers have employed rigid materials to fabricate precise, predictable
robotic systems, which are easily modelled as rigid members connected at discrete joints …

Haptics: The present and future of artificial touch sensation

H Culbertson, SB Schorr… - Annual review of control …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the technology behind creating artificial touch sensations and the
relevant aspects of human touch. We focus on the design and control of haptic devices and …

Stiffening in soft robotics: A review of the state of the art

M Manti, V Cacucciolo… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need for building robots with soft materials emerged recently from considerations of the
limitations of service robots in negotiating natural environments, from observation of the role …

Bio-inspired soft robotics: Material selection, actuation, and design

S Coyle, C Majidi, P LeDuc, KJ Hsia - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Animals exploit the deformability of soft structures to move efficiently in complex natural
environments. These soft structures are inherently compliant and enable large strains in …

A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

NW Bartlett, MT Tolley, JTB Overvelde, JC Weaver… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Roboticists have begun to design biologically inspired robots with soft or partially soft
bodies, which have the potential to be more robust and adaptable, and safer for human …

A review of jamming actuation in soft robotics

SG Fitzgerald, GW Delaney, D Howard - Actuators, 2020 - mdpi.com
Jamming is a popular and versatile soft robotic mechanism, enabling new systems to be
developed that can achieve high stiffness variation with minimal volume variation …

Fundamentals of soft robot locomotion

M Calisti, G Picardi, C Laschi - Journal of The Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Soft robotics and its related technologies enable robot abilities in several robotics domains
including, but not exclusively related to, manipulation, manufacturing, human–robot …