Background Soft, wearable, powered exoskeletons are novel devices that may assist
rehabilitation, allowing users to walk further or carry out activities of daily living. However …

Interest in soft actuators has increased enormously in the last 10 years. Thanks to their
compliance and flexibility, they are suitable to be employed to actuate devices that must …

Soft robotics requires new actuators and artificial muscles that are lighter, less expensive,
and more effective than current technologies. Recently developed bubble artificial muscles …

Soft robotics provides a novel solution for automation processes which require high flexibility
and safe interaction with human or delicate objects. Soft Pneumatic Actuator (SPA)—the …

The McKibben muscle types are pneumatic actuators known to be intrinsically safe for their
high power-to-weight ratio. For these reasons, they are suitable for robotic, biomechanical …

Negative-pressure artificial muscles based on internal support and flexible skin provide a
way to develop high-performance artificial muscles. However, the random and disordered …

In this paper, we propose a double air chambers artificial muscle to eliminate the hysteresis
in the extension and contraction movement of pneumatic artificial muscles. In this paper, the …

In the landscape of Industry 4.0, advanced robotics awaits a growing use of bioinspired
adaptive and flexible robots. Collaborative robotics meets this demand. Due to human–robot …

In this paper, the design of a 2-dof (degrees of freedom) rehabilitation robot for upper limbs
driven by pneumatic muscle actuators is presented. This paper includes the different aspects …

Currently, researchers are actively conducting studies and experiments on soft robots due to
their increasing abilities to cooperate with humans. Particular attention is being paid to …