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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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Static and Dynamic Friction Characteristics Analysis of Actuation Module for Friction Compensation of Exoskeleton Robot [PDF]
한국정밀공학회지, 2019 Actuators for exoskeleton robots comprise various types such as electric, hydraulic, and pneumatic and it is necessary to apply the correct actuator according to the purpose. Most exoskeleton robots mainly use electric actuators, and some special-purpose
Byoung Ju Lee +3 more
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Versatile Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators Enabled by Fiber‐Polymer Composite Fabrication
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This work reports composite Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators with embedded Kevlar fibers that convert pneumatic or hydraulic pressure into powerful linear motion. A novel precise manufacturing technique is used to systematically explore how design variables influence actuator mechanics and dynamics.
William J. Townsend +5 more
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Nature CommunicationsPneumatic artificial muscles have been widely used in the field of robotics because of their large output force and fast actuation, however, the accompanying bulky compressors and pumps limit their miniaturized applications.
Yande Cui +4 more
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An Edible Chitosan‐Based Acoustic Sensor for Sound‐Responsive Actuation in Edible Robots
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study introduces an edible acoustic sensor for robotic food and edible robotics. Built from a chitosan piezoelectric film between gold electrodes, the sensor enables acoustic communication through ON/OFF keying. Integrated into an edible robot with pneumatically actuated arms and neck, it responds to high‐frequency tones.
Valerio Francesco Annese +8 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A tubular electrowetting pump moves alternating droplets through a millimeter‐wide channel in discrete, reversible steps, functioning as a fluidic stepper motor. With no moving parts and electrodes insulated from the liquid, it delivers silent, accurate flow. Flexibility allows the pump to be woven directly into textiles for wearable, medical, and soft‐
Robert Hennig, Herbert Shea
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ActuatorsContinuum robots offer inherent compliance and dexterity for operation in confined and unstructured environments; however, achieving hybrid multi-segment functionality typically requires application-specific redesign and tightly coupled architectures. To
Burak Ozdemir +3 more
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An Origami-Inspired Flexible Pneumatic Actuator [PDF]
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018 This paper presents a new actuator designed to produce forces under short stroke displacements. Two variants of the prototype have been manufactured using Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing process, based on a flexible origami-inspired architecture.
François Schmitt +3 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review examines how cellular behavior is regulated by mechanical cues transmitted through soft biomaterials, from single‐cell mechanosensing to tissue‐level adaptation. It highlights why physiological relevance, rather than model complexity alone, is critical for translational mechanobiology and introduces a scoring framework linking material ...
Mathias Polz +9 more
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A pneumatic chamber-actuated modular robotic gripper
Engineering Science and Technology, an International JournalWith the rapid advancement of industrial automation, higher demands have been placed on the compliance, loading capacity, and grasping adaptability of robotic grippers.
Longfei Sun, Changshan Shi
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