The growing interest in soft robots comes from the new possibilities offered by these systems
to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies. Many …

Electro-active polymers (EAPs) are emerging as feasible materials to mimic muscle-like
actuation. Among EAPs, dielectric elastomer (DE) devices are soft or flexible capacitors …

Snake robots have advantages of terrain adaptability over wheeled mobile robots and
traditional articulated robot arms because of their limbless thin body structure and high …

Soft manipulator is a kind of special manipulator that uses soft material or flexible structure to
perform manipulation task under the specific drive mode inspired by the soft tissue. It is …

Polyacrylamide hydrogels containing salt as electrolyte have been used as highly
stretchable transparent electrodes in flexible electronics, but those hydrogels are easy to dry …

Dielectric elastomer (DE) actuators are popularly referred to as artificial muscles because
their impressive actuation strain and speed, low density, compliant nature, and silent …

Soft dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) exhibit interesting muscle-like behavior for the
development of soft robots. However, it is challenging to model these soft actuators due to …

This paper describes the development of a biomimetic swimming robot based on the
locomotion of a marine turtle. To realize the smooth, soft flapping motions of this type of …

In dielectric elastomer stack actuators (DEAs), the driving voltage is reduced using thin
dielectric layers. They are efficiently fabricated in an automated process. To produce thin …

Self sensing Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA) artificial muscles will enable the creation of
soft, lightweight robots with animal-like capabilities. We demonstrate a fast, accurate, and …