Bistable and multistable actuators for soft robots: Structures, materials, and functionalities

Y Chi, Y Li, Y Zhao, Y Hong, Y Tang… - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Snap‐through bistability is often observed in nature (eg, fast snapping to closure of Venus
flytrap) and the life (eg, bottle caps and hair clippers). Recently, harnessing bistability and …

Advances in 4D printing of liquid crystalline elastomers: materials, techniques, and applications

Z Guan, L Wang, J Bae - Materials Horizons, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are polymer networks exhibiting anisotropic liquid
crystallinity while maintaining elastomeric properties. Owing to diverse polymeric forms and …

Locally controllable magnetic soft actuators with reprogrammable contraction-derived motions

Y Wu, S Zhang, Y Yang, Z Li, Y Wei, Y Ji - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Reprogrammable magneto-responsive soft actuators capable of working in enclosed and
confined spaces and adapting functions under changing situations are highly demanded for …

Pangolin-inspired untethered magnetic robot for on-demand biomedical heating applications

RH Soon, Z Yin, MA Dogan, NO Dogan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Untethered magnetic miniature soft robots capable of accessing hard-to-reach regions can
enable safe, disruptive, and minimally invasive medical procedures. However, the soft body …

Design and build of small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots with multimodal locomotion

Z Ren, M Sitti - Nature protocols, 2024 - nature.com
Small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed to operate based on different
locomotion modes to navigate and function inside unstructured, confined and varying …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printing of magneto-active smart materials for advanced actuators and soft robotics applications

MY Khalid, ZU Arif, A Tariq, M Hossain, KA Khan… - European Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the contemporary era, novel manufacturing technologies like additive manufacturing (AM)
have revolutionized the different engineering sectors including biomedical, aerospace …

Magnetic arthropod millirobots fabricated by 3D‐printed hydrogels

B Sun, R Jia, H Yang, X Chen, K Tan… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetically driven small‐scale soft robots are promising for applications in biomedicine,
due to their fast, programmable deformation, and remote, untethered actuation to …

Embedded shape morphing for morphologically adaptive robots

J Sun, E Lerner, B Tighe, C Middlemist… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Shape-morphing robots can change their morphology to fulfill different tasks in varying
environments, but existing shape-morphing capability is not embedded in a robot's body …

Mimosa‐Inspired High‐Sensitive and Multi‐Responsive Starch Actuators

H Hu, M Nie, M Galluzzi, X Yu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial intelligent actuators are extensively explored for emerging applications such as soft
robots, human‐machine interfaces, and biomedical devices. However, intelligent actuating …

Magnetic soft robots: Design, actuation, and function

H Wang, Z Zhu, H Jin, R Wei, L Bi, W Zhang - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by advances in soft material science, magnetic soft robots have recently attracted
significant attention owing to their remarkable reprogramming deformations under magnetic …