Autonomous robots comprise actuation, energy, sensory and control systems built from
materials and structures that are not necessarily designed and integrated for …

Traditional rigid robot application in the medical field is limited due to the limited degrees of
freedom caused by their material and structure. Inspired by trunk, tentacles, and snakes …

Mobile robots with multi locomotion modes have excellent terrain adaptability. However,
traditional multi-locomotion mobile robots are usually actuated by a large number of motors …

In contrast to traditional large-scale robots, which require complicated mechanical joints and
material rigidity, microrobots made of soft materials have exhibited amazing features and …

Soft robotics has opened a unique path to flexibility and environmental adaptability, learning
from nature and reproducing biological behaviors. Nature implies answers for how to apply …

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 …

With the rapid development of origami technology, worm-inspired origami robots have
attracted tremendous interest owing to their colourful locomotion behaviours, such as …

Untethered small-scale soft robots have been widely researched because they can be
employed to perform wireless procedures via natural orifices in the human body, or other …

Clustered tensegrity mechanisms have elicited extensive attention in recent research due to
their easy control system and high stiffness-to-mass ratio. However, modeling and analyzing …

Soft robots offer a great application potential in the field of military, medical, and industry. In
this study, a rolling gait was adopted to the design of the soft robot so as to improve the …