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 …

Abstract Machines are systems that harness input power to extend or advance function.
Fundamentally, machines are based on the integration of materials with mechanisms to …

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 …

Conventional industrial robots with the rigid actuation technology have made great progress
for humans in the fields of automation assembly and manufacturing. With an increasing …

Dielectric elastomer transducers consist of thin electrically insulating elastomeric
membranes coated on both sides with compliant electrodes. They are a promising …

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

Although dielectric elastomers have been extensively studied recently, to date there has
been little research into application of dielectric elastomer actuators to undersea robots. This …

Dielectric elastomers are capable of large voltage-induced deformation, but achieving such
large deformation in practice has been a major challenge due to electromechanical …

Electroactive polymers (EAPs) are materials that respond to electrical stimulation by
exhibiting significantly large strains (to a maximum of a few hundred%) and vice versa …

Boneless soft robotic fingers cannot apply concentrated forces to pinch a delicate object.
This letter reports a three-dimensional design of dielectric elastomer fingers with higher …