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 …

Medical micro/nanorobots in precision medicine

F Soto, J Wang, R Ahmed, U Demirci - Advanced science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in medical robots promise to improve modern medicine and the quality of life.
Miniaturization of these robotic platforms has led to numerous applications that leverages …

Stimuli‐responsive hydrogels: fabrication and biomedical applications

Z Li, Y Zhou, T Li, J Zhang, H Tian - View, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their similarity to some bio‐architectures, for example, extracellular matrix, hydrogels
are considered as bio‐inspired networks with bio‐mimetic and bio‐functional properties …

Soft actuators for small‐scale robotics

L Hines, K Petersen, GZ Lum, M Sitti - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This review comprises a detailed survey of ongoing methodologies for soft actuators,
highlighting approaches suitable for nanometer‐to centimeter‐scale robotic applications …

Liquid crystal elastomer‐based magnetic composite films for reconfigurable shape‐morphing soft miniature machines

J Zhang, Y Guo, W Hu, RH Soon… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive and active materials promise radical advances for many applications. In
particular, soft magnetic materials offer precise, fast, and wireless actuation together with …

Stimuli-responsive functional micro-/nanorobots: a review

Y Zhou, M Ye, C Hu, H Qian, BJ Nelson, X Wang - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stimuli-responsive functional micro-/nanorobots (srFM/Ns) are a class of intelligent, efficient,
and promising microrobots that can react to external stimuli (such as temperature, light …

Transformer hydrogels: a review

O Erol, A Pantula, W Liu… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels, which are hydrophilic soft porous networks, are an important class of materials of
broad relevance to bioanalytical chemistry, soft‐robotics, drug delivery, and regenerative …

Bioinspired microrobots

S Palagi, P Fischer - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Microorganisms can move in complex media, respond to the environment and self-organize.
The field of microrobotics strives to achieve these functions in mobile robotic systems of sub …

Recent developments in magnetically driven micro-and nanorobots

XZ Chen, M Hoop, F Mushtaq, E Siringil, C Hu… - Applied Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
Micro-and nanorobots are promising devices for biomedical and environmental applications.
The past few years have witnessed rapid developments in this field. This short review …

Light‐powered microrobots: challenges and opportunities for hard and soft responsive microswimmers

AI Bunea, D Martella, S Nocentini… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide research in microrobotics has exploded in the past two decades, leading to the
development of microrobots propelled in various manners. Despite significant advances in …