Advances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid
progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented …

NiTi alloys have drawn significant attentions in biomedical and aerospace fields due to their
unique shape memory effect (SME), superelasticity (SE), damping characteristics, high …

Mobile sub‐millimeter micro‐robots have demonstrated untethered motion and transport of
cargo in remote, confined or enclosed environments. However, limited by simple design and …

The piezoelectric-actuated compliant microgripper (PEACM) plays an essential role in the
application fields such as biomedical engineering, microelectronics, and optical …

Abstract Micro-electromechanical-system (MEMS) based actuators, which transduce certain
domains of energy into mechanical movements in the microscopic scale, are increasingly …

Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) reveals excellent flexibility and adaptability in
miniaturization devices owing to its compact dimension, low power consumption, and fine …

This paper reports an electrostatic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gripper with an
integrated capacitive force sensor. The sensitivity is more than three orders of magnitude …

As mechanical end-effectors, microgrippers enable the pick–transport–place of micrometer-
sized objects, such as manipulation and positioning of biological cells in an aqueous …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to review the current application areas of shape
memory alloy (SMA) actuators in intelligent robotic systems and devices …

Flexure-based micropositioning systems with a large workspace are attractive for a variety of
precision engineering applications. In this paper, a new idea of multistage compound …