This review comprises a detailed survey of ongoing methodologies for soft actuators,
highlighting approaches suitable for nanometer‐to centimeter‐scale robotic applications …

Robotic artificial muscles are a subset of artificial muscles that are capable of producing
biologically inspired motions useful for robot systems, ie, large power-to-weight ratios …

To add more functionalities and overcome the limitation in conventional soft robots, highly
anisotropic soft actuators with color shifting function during actuation is demonstrated for the …

Soft actuator materials change their shape or size in response to stimuli like electricity, heat,
light, chemical or pH. These actuator materials are compliant and well suited for soft …

Intelligent materials are one of the important directions in the development of modern high-
tech new materials, realizing structural functionalization and functional diversification. As a …

Polymer‐based flexible actuators have recently attracted significant attention owing to their
great potentials in soft robotics, wearables, haptics, and medical devices. In particular …

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Abstract Development of biomimetic actuators has been an essential motivation in the study
of smart materials. However, few materials are capable of controlling complex twisting and …

Soft actuators based on electroactive polymers (EAPs) are the core constituents of future soft
robots owing to their fascinating properties such as lightweight, compactness, easy …

As a new type of flexible smart material, ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) has the
advantages of being lightweight and having fast responses, good flexibility, and large …