Soft pneumatic actuators: A review of design, fabrication, modeling, sensing, control and applications

MS Xavier, CD Tawk, A Zolfagharian, J Pinskier… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotics is a rapidly evolving field where robots are fabricated using highly deformable
materials and usually follow a bioinspired design. Their high dexterity and safety make them …

Soft actuators for soft robotic applications: A review

N El-Atab, RB Mishra, F Al-Modaf… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robotics technologies are paving the way toward robotic abilities which are vital for a
wide range of applications, including manufacturing, manipulation, gripping, human …

Soft robotic grippers

J Shintake, V Cacucciolo, D Floreano… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Untethered soft robotics

SI Rich, RJ Wood, C Majidi - Nature Electronics, 2018 - nature.com
Research in soft matter engineering has introduced new approaches in robotics and
wearable devices that can interface with the human body and adapt to unpredictable …

Processing of self‐healing polymers for soft robotics

E Roels, S Terryn, F Iida, AW Bosman… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots are, due to their softness, inherently safe and adapt well to unstructured
environments. However, they are prone to various damage types. Self‐healing polymers …

Mechanical integrated circuit materials

C El Helou, B Grossmann, CE Tabor, PR Buskohl… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Recent developments in autonomous engineered matter have introduced the ability for
intelligent materials to process environmental stimuli and functionally adapt,,–. To formulate …

Soft‐matter engineering for soft robotics

C Majidi - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Since its inception, the field of robotics has aimed to create machines that mimic the
extraordinary capabilities of the human body. From as early as the 1940s, this has included …

Decade of bio-inspired soft robots: A review

F Ahmed, M Waqas, B Jawed… - Smart Materials and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Soft robotics is an emerging field of robotics that focuses on the design of soft machines and
devices with effective human-machine interaction, high conformity, and environmental …

Liquid metal based soft robotics: materials, designs, and applications

X Wang, R Guo, J Liu - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging classes of soft robotics with flexible actuation, intelligent sensibility, and
biomimetic functionality are driving significant advances in academic researches and …

A review of 3D‐printable soft pneumatic actuators and sensors: research challenges and opportunities

C Tawk, G Alici - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The soft robotics field is changing the way people think, build, interact, and most importantly
perceive robots. Robots have long been perceived as machines made of metals that their …