Functional fibers and fabrics for soft robotics, wearables, and human–robot interface

J Xiong, J Chen, PS Lee - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robotics inspired by the movement of living organisms, with excellent adaptability and
accuracy for accomplishing tasks, are highly desirable for efficient operations and safe …

Soft, wearable robotics and haptics: Technologies, trends, and emerging applications

M Zhu, S Biswas, SI Dinulescu, N Kastor… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Advanced soft robotic system for in situ 3D bioprinting and endoscopic surgery

MT Thai, PT Phan, HA Tran, CC Nguyen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Three‐dimensional (3D) bioprinting technology offers great potential in the
treatment of tissue and organ damage. Conventional approaches generally rely on a large …

Flexible strain sensors for wearable hand gesture recognition: from devices to systems

Y Si, S Chen, M Li, S Li, Y Pei… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hand gesture recognition has attracted extensive research interest, as an essential
approach for human− machine interaction. The development of flexible strain sensors offers …

Soft material-enabled, flexible hybrid electronics for medicine, healthcare, and human-machine interfaces

R Herbert, JH Kim, YS Kim, HM Lee, WH Yeo - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), designed in wearable and implantable configurations,
have enormous applications in advanced healthcare, rapid disease diagnostics, and …

Microfluidics for flexible electronics

J Guo, Y Yu, L Cai, Y Wang, K Shi, L Shang, J Pan… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexible electronics has extensively drawn attention in an extremely wide range of areas due
to its unique advantages like portability, biocompatibility, wearability, and superior …

Fiber optic shape sensing for soft robotics

KC Galloway, Y Chen, E Templeton, B Rife… - Soft robotics, 2019 - liebertpub.com
While soft material actuators can undergo large deformations to execute very complex
motions, what is critically lacking in soft material robotic systems is the ability to collect high …

Fluidic fabric muscle sheets for wearable and soft robotics

M Zhu, TN Do, E Hawkes, Y Visell - Soft robotics, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Conformable robotic systems are attractive for applications in which they may actuate
structures with large surface areas, provide forces through wearable garments, or enable …

Bio‐inspired conformable and helical soft fabric gripper with variable stiffness and touch sensing

TT Hoang, PT Phan, MT Thai… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There are many instances in nature where continuum, helical manipulators are used to
efficiently grasp different objects with various shapes and sizes. Inspired by nature, this …

Miniature soft electromagnetic actuators for robotic applications

TN Do, H Phan, TQ Nguyen… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Electromagnetic actuators (EMAs) serve the majority of motion control needs in fields
ranging from industrial robotics to automotive systems and biomedical devices, due to their …