Soft grippers display adaptability, dexterity, and safety, garnering increased interest in their
applications. However, accurately modeling their nonlinear deformation and sensing the …

With infinite degrees of freedom, soft robots are expected to achieve dexterous and complex
tasks, but this also puts forward higher requirements for their sensing capabilities. An …

The recent surge of interest in soft robotics has prompted many interesting soft robotic
manipulator designs to be proposed. However, current soft robotic manipulators mainly …

This article presents a novel extensible continuum robot (ECR) with growing motion
capability for improved flexible access in transoral laryngeal procedures. The robot uses an …

Parallel continuum robots (PCRs) based on soft actuators have been recently proposed to
take advantage of both, soft robots in flexible, diverse actuation, parallel robots in stable, and …

Continuum robots actuated by flexible rods have large potential applications, such as
detection and operation tasks in confined environments, since the push and pull actuation of …

Soft robotics faces challenges in attaining control methods that ensure precision from hard-
to-model actuators and sensors. This study focuses on closed-chain control of a segment of …

Pneumatic soft robots are becoming a research hotspot because to their high flexibility,
compliance, and adaptability, and they typically use external air pumps as their air supply …

A hybrid system combining rigid and soft robots (eg, soft fingers attached to a rigid arm)
ensures safe and dexterous interaction with humans. Nevertheless, modeling complex …

Continuum robotics has emerged as a prominent trend within the robotics field for about two
decades. Nevertheless, motion analysis of continuum robots based on dynamic modelling …