Due to the inherent rigidity of hard materials, the adaptability and flexibility of traditional
robots are limited. Recently, soft robots became one of the most attractive areas. The …

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 …

The climbing microrobots have attracted growing attention due to their promising
applications in exploration and monitoring of complex, unstructured environments. Soft …

Conventional robots are mainly made of rigid materials, such as steel and aluminum.
Recently there has been a surge in the popularity of soft robots owing to their inherent …

Featured Application The main application area of dielectric elastomers is soft robotics as
muscle-like actuators. Abstract This paper reviews state-of-the-art dielectric elastomer …

Grasping and manipulation are fundamental ways for many creatures to interact with their
environments. Different morphologies and grasping methods of “grippers” are highly …

In the past decade, the development of theory has deeply revealed the electromechanical
coupling deformation mechanism of dielectric elastomer (DE). Many theoretical predictions …

Active metamaterials with shapes or mechanical properties that can be controlled remotely
are promising candidates for soft robots, flexible electronics, and medical applications …

Robotic grasping has become increasingly important in many application areas such as
industrial manufacturing and logistics. Because of the diversity and uncertainty of objects …

Aiming at combining compliant covering and rigid lifting to the object grasping, this paper
presents the design principle of a variable stiffness soft gripper and carries out its structural …