Recent progress in advanced tactile sensing technologies for soft grippers

J Qu, B Mao, Z Li, Y Xu, K Zhou, X Cao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tactile sensing technology is crucial for soft grippers. Soft grippers equipped with intelligent
tactile sensing systems based on various sensors can interact safely with the unstructured …

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 …

Toward perceptive soft robots: Progress and challenges

H Wang, M Totaro, L Beccai - Advanced Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the past few years, soft robotics has rapidly become an emerging research topic, opening
new possibilities for addressing real‐world tasks. Perception can enable robots to effectively …

A century of robotic hands

C Piazza, G Grioli, MG Catalano… - Annual Review of Control …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
This article reports on the state of the art of artificial hands, discussing some of the field's
most important trends and suggesting directions for future research. We review and group …

Reversible polymer-gel transition for ultra-stretchable chip-integrated circuits through self-soldering and self-coating and self-healing

PA Lopes, BC Santos, AT de Almeida… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Integration of solid-state microchips into soft-matter, and stretchable printed electronics has
been the biggest challenge against their scalable fabrication. We introduce, Pol-Gel, a …

Cytotoxicity of gallium–indium liquid metal in an aqueous environment

JH Kim, S Kim, JH So, K Kim… - ACS applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Eutectic gallium–indium alloy (EGaIn) liquid metal is highly conductive, moldable, and
extremely deformable and has attracted significant attention for many applications, ranging …

Digitally printed stretchable electronics: a review

DF Fernandes, C Majidi, M Tavakoli - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Stretchable electronics are becoming an important branch in the field of electronics, with a
rapidly growing number of studies on highly deformable circuits that can handle large tensile …

Graphene‐based actuator with integrated‐sensing function

L Chen, M Weng, P Zhou, F Huang… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible actuators have important applications in artificial muscles, robotics, optical devices,
and so on. However, most of the conventional actuators have only actuation function, lacking …

Hydroprinted electronics: ultrathin stretchable Ag–In–Ga E-skin for bioelectronics and human–machine interaction

PA Lopes, H Paisana, AT De Almeida… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We introduce a soft ultrathin and stretchable electronic skin with surface-mounted
components that can be transferred and wrapped around any three-dimensional (3D) …

Soft robotic surface enhances the grasping adaptability and reliability of pneumatic grippers

W Xiao, C Liu, D Hu, G Yang, X Han - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft grippers are an emerging field of robotics in recent years owing to their reduced control
complexity, easy fabrication, and excellent compliance. However, the small contact area and …