Recent progress in active mechanical metamaterials and construction principles

J Qi, Z Chen, P Jiang, W Hu, Y Wang, Z Zhao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Active mechanical metamaterials (AMMs)(or smart mechanical metamaterials) that combine
the configurations of mechanical metamaterials and the active control of stimuli‐responsive …

Untethered small-scale machines for microrobotic manipulation: From individual and multiple to collective machines

Q Wang, J Zhang, J Yu, J Lang, Z Lyu, Y Chen… - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Untethered small-scale machines (USSMs) that can actively adjust their motion,
deformation, and collective states in response to external stimuli have gained enormous …

Design and build of small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots with multimodal locomotion

Z Ren, M Sitti - Nature protocols, 2024 - nature.com
Small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed to operate based on different
locomotion modes to navigate and function inside unstructured, confined and varying …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printing of magneto-active smart materials for advanced actuators and soft robotics applications

MY Khalid, ZU Arif, A Tariq, M Hossain, KA Khan… - European Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the contemporary era, novel manufacturing technologies like additive manufacturing (AM)
have revolutionized the different engineering sectors including biomedical, aerospace …

A magnetic soft robot with multimodal sensing capability by multimaterial direct ink writing

Z Wang, Y Wu, B Zhu, Q Chen, L Wang, Y Zhao… - Additive …, 2023 - Elsevier
The all-in-one integration of materials, structures and sensors for next-generation magnetic
soft robots is a promising avenue to interact with external surroundings. However, few …

Responsive magnetic nanocomposites for intelligent shape-morphing microrobots

Y Liu, G Lin, M Medina-Sánchez, M Guix, D Makarov… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the development of advanced biomedical theragnosis and bioengineering tools, smart
and soft responsive microstructures and nanostructures have emerged. These structures …

Textiles in soft robots: Current progress and future trends

C Fu, Z Xia, C Hurren, A Nilghaz, X Wang - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft robotics have substantial benefits of safety, adaptability, and cost efficiency compared to
conventional rigid robotics. Textiles have applications in soft robotics either as an auxiliary …

Magnetic soft robots: Design, actuation, and function

H Wang, Z Zhu, H Jin, R Wei, L Bi, W Zhang - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by advances in soft material science, magnetic soft robots have recently attracted
significant attention owing to their remarkable reprogramming deformations under magnetic …

Origami-inspired magnetic-driven soft actuators with programmable designs and multiple applications

D Tang, C Zhang, H Sun, H Dai, J Xie, J Fu, P Zhao - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Soft actuators are attracting increasing attention for their great potentials in transportation,
exploration and clinical treatments, especially the magnetic-driven soft actuators powered by …