Abstract Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing has enabled the production of
increasingly complex parts that are difficult to produce with conventional manufacturing …

Soft robots offer a myriad of potential because of their intrinsically compliant bodies,
enabling safe interactions with humans and adaptability to unpredictable environments …

Jet injection devices have been studied and developed for transdermal drug delivery to
avoid the use of needles. Due to bulky actuation mechanisms, they are limited to body areas …

During the last decades, the modeling of flexures undergoing large deflections has been the
subject of many investigations. Various rigid body models have been proposed in an effort to …

Thanks to their absence of play, absence of contact friction and possible monolithic
fabrication, flexure pivots offer advantages over traditional bearings in small-scale, high …

Buckled beams have become key building blocks in compliant mechanisms to achieve
nonlinear behaviors, such as bistability, constant-force and stiffness tuning. However …

Fused silica glass is a material with outstanding mechanical, thermal and optical properties.
Being a brittle material, it is challenging to shape. In the last decade, the manufacturing of …

We develop an automated computational modeling framework for rapid gradient-based
design of multistable soft mechanical structures composed of non-identical bistable unit cells …

Multistability is the characteristic of a device can steadily stay at two or more positions
without external power input, which has been employed to design surgical tools, mechanical …

A vitrectome is a commonly used instrument in eye surgery, which is used to cut and
aspirate the vitreous body out of the eye. The mechanism of the vitrectome consists of …