A review of soft actuator motion: Actuation, design, manufacturing and applications

X Tang, H Li, T Ma, Y Yang, J Luo, H Wang, P Jiang - Actuators, 2022 - mdpi.com
Compared with traditional rigid robots, soft robots have high flexibility, low stiffness, and
adaptability to unstructured environments, and as such have great application potential in …

Advanced technologies and applications of robotic soft grippers

J Qu, Z Yu, W Tang, Y Xu, B Mao… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The robotic soft gripper is a significant and expanding area of study. It is primarily a unique
gadget that interacts with the external environment in a certain actuating mode by utilizing …

Innovative development of a soft robotic gripper: mathematical modeling and grasping capability analysis

T Xuan Hiep, CA My, P Van Binh… - Mechanics Based Design …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, most soft grippers rely on complex mechanisms or complicated structures, leading
to challenging fabrication and mathematical modeling. This study presents an innovative soft …

A review on reprogrammable bistable structures

C Zhang, X Yin, R Chen, K Ju, Y Hao… - Smart Materials and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Bistable structures have attracted attention due to their unique properties and potential
applications in soft robotics, logic gates and energy harvesting devices. The bi-stability is …

Flexible assembled tactile sensor with freely integration design

L Yang, Y Li, H Wang, S Wei, Z Li, Y Liu… - Smart Materials and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Flexible touch-sensing devices have become increasingly multifunctional in wearable
interaction electronics owing to the diversification of material synthesis and the flexibility in …

Reprogrammable Gripper Through Pneumatic Tunable Bistable Origami Actuators

C Zhang, H Yang, R Garziera, Y Xu, H Jiang - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We introduce a pneumatic-driven, origami-inspired reprogrammable gripper, distinct from
traditional grippers due to its dynamic adjustability in grasping modes post-fabrication. This …

Pegrip: A plant-tendril-inspired passive entanglement gripper enabling fail-safe grasping

L Li, S He, Q Qi, J Zeng, S Kang, G Endo… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotics, including soft grippers and manipulators, are increasingly required to function
more adaptively and securely in unknown environments. However, conventional soft …

Reticular Origami Soft Robotic Gripper for Shape-Adaptive and Bistable Rapid Grasping

N Hou, M Wu, Q Zhao, Z Tang, K Wang, X Xu… - Soft …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
The top–down approach in designing and fabricating origami robots could achieve far more
complicated functions with compliant and elegant designs than traditional robots. This study …

Variable stiffness soft robotic gripper: Design, development, and prospects

Y Shan, Y Zhao, H Wang, L Dong, C Pei… - Bioinspiration & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The advent of variable stiffness soft robotic grippers furnishes a conduit for exploration and
manipulation within uncharted, non-structured environments. The paper provides a …

Layer jamming skin‐based bionic webbed foot soft gripper with variable stiffness and envelopment

Z Zhang, S Li, Y Zhou, D Huang, M Sun, G Zhang… - Composite …, 2024 - Elsevier
Inspired by webbed feet, a bionic webbed foot soft gripper with variable stiffness was
designed by integrating a pneumatic networks actuator with layer jamming skin. Layer …