The need for building robots with soft materials emerged recently from considerations of the
limitations of service robots in negotiating natural environments, from observation of the role …

Objectives: Haptics in teleoperated medical interventions enables measurement and
transfer of force information to the operator during robot-environment interaction. This paper …

This paper introduces a novel, bioinspired manipulator for minimally invasive surgery (MIS).
The manipulator is entirely composed of soft materials, and it has been designed to provide …

This paper presents the concept design of a modular soft manipulator for minimally invasive
surgery. Unlike traditional surgical manipulators based on metallic steerable needles …

Despite its expected clinical benefits, current teleoperated surgical robots do not provide the
surgeon with haptic feedback largely because grounded forces can destabilize the system's …

There is an emerging trend toward soft robotics due to its extended manipulation capabilities
compared to traditionally rigid robot links, showing promise for an extended applicability to …

Robots made of soft materials are demonstrating to be well suited in applications where
dexterity and intrinsic safety are necessary. However, one of the most challenging goals of …

Soft robots have proved to represent a new frontier for the development of intelligent
machines able to show new capabilities that can complement those currently performed by …

Soft robots are well-suited for human-centric applications, but the compliance that gives soft
robots this advantage must also be paired with adequate stiffness modulation such that soft …

Recently, vacuum-based layer jamming mechanisms have been actively researched for safe
human-robot interaction. However, most conventional layer jamming mechanisms provide …