Sensing in soft robotics

C Hegde, J Su, JMR Tan, K He, X Chen, S Magdassi - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Soft robotics is an exciting field of science and technology that enables robots to manipulate
objects with human-like dexterity. Soft robots can handle delicate objects with care, access …

Textile technology for soft robotic and autonomous garments

V Sanchez, CJ Walsh, RJ Wood - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Textiles have emerged as a promising class of materials for developing wearable robots that
move and feel like everyday clothing. Textiles represent a favorable material platform for …

Fiber pumps for wearable fluidic systems

M Smith, V Cacucciolo, H Shea - Science, 2023 - science.org
Incorporating pressurized fluidic circuits into textiles can enable muscular support,
thermoregulation, and haptic feedback in a convenient wearable form factor. However …

Active tissue adhesive activates mechanosensors and prevents muscle atrophy

S Nam, BR Seo, AJ Najibi, SL McNamara… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
While mechanical stimulation is known to regulate a wide range of biological processes at
the cellular and tissue levels, its medical use for tissue regeneration and rehabilitation has …

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 …

3D knitting for pneumatic soft robotics

V Sanchez, K Mahadevan, G Ohlson… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots adapt passively to complex environments due to their inherent compliance,
allowing them to interact safely with fragile or irregular objects and traverse uneven terrain …

Magnetically Actuated Fiber‐Based Soft Robots

Y Lee, F Koehler, T Dillon, G Loke, Y Kim… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Broad adoption of magnetic soft robotics is hampered by the sophisticated field paradigms
for their manipulation and the complexities in controlling multiple devices. Furthermore, high …

Design optimization of soft robots: A review of the state of the art

F Chen, MY Wang - IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotics has undergone a profound revolution in the past 50 years, moving from the
laboratory and research institute to the factory and home. Kinematics and dynamics theories …

High‐Stroke, High‐Output‐Force, Fabric‐Lattice Artificial Muscles for Soft Robots

D Yang, M Feng, G Gu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial muscles, providing safe and close interaction between humans and machines, are
essential in soft robotics. However, their insufficient deformation, output force, or …

Intelligent soft surgical robots for next‐generation minimally invasive surgery

J Zhu, L Lyu, Y Xu, H Liang, X Zhang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Endowed with the expected visions for future surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has
become one of the most rapid developing areas in modern surgery. Soft robotics, which …