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Strategic Design of Soft Actuators in Translational Medical Robotics for Human‐Centered Healthcare

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robotics enables biocompatible, compliant medical devices, but clinical translation requires design‐driven engineering beyond materials. This perspective reviews implantable, surgical, and wearable systems by actuation mechanism, highlighting how optimized architectures and integration improve mechanical interfacing, adaptability, and durability ...
Ho Jun Jin, Jimin Kim, Inho Kim, Bong Hoon Kim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Numerical and experimental methods for the assessment of a human finger-inspired soft pneumatic actuator for gripping applications. [PDF]

MethodsX
Bhat SK, Doreswamy D, Hegde AH, Nukarapu VK, Bhat S, Puneeth S, Das V, Bayezeed AA, Bongale AM.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

FiN‐Kiri: Fabric‐Based Inflatable Kirigami Actuator for Multimodal Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This study introduces a type of inflatable fabric‐based kirigami actuator capable of performing bending motion. The actuator is utilized as soft grippers, a crawling robot and a swimming robot. The crawling robot demonstrated extraordinary motion capabilities, such as moving forward, turning and navigating a narrow tunnel.
Yang Yu, Yupei Zhang, Yanqi Yin, Yehui Wu, Jinyao Zhang, Ruiyu Bai, Jiaqiang Yao, Kewei Su, Chenyi Yu, Zhicheng Tian, Naipeng Li, Zhuang Zhang, Bo Li   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of fabric-based pneumatic actuator enclosure and anchoring configurations in a pediatric soft robotic exosuit. [PDF]

Front Robot AI
Sahin I, Ayazi M, Mucchiani C, Dube J, Karydis K, Kokkoni E.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Development and Control of a Pneumatic-Actuator 3-DOF Translational Parallel Manipulator with Robot Vision. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2019
Lee LW, Chiang HH, Li IH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Advances in Electroactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Intelligent Robotics and Electronics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Electroactive liquid crystal elastomers (eLCEs) integrate molecular anisotropy with electrical functionality to enable programmable actuation and reconfigurable electronics. This review classifies eLCEs into robotic actuators and adaptive electronics, summarizes key actuation mechanisms, and highlights fabrication strategies that bridge materials to ...
Kavita Ramesh Rathod, Sena Chon, Jae Hyuk Hwang, Sung Hyuk Park, Woohwa Lee, Joonmyung Choi, Shi Hyeong Kim, Seung Hwan Ko, Changsoon Choi, Seon Jeong Kim, Dong‐Gyun Kim, Habeom Lee, Kyung Gook Cho, Woon‐Hong Yeo, Hyun Kim   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seahorse-Tail-Inspired Soft Pneumatic Actuator: Development and Experimental Characterization. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Antonelli MG, Beomonte Zobel P, Sarwar MA, Stampone N.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hand and face somatotopy shown using MRI-safe vibrotactile stimulation with a novel Soft Pneumatic Actuator (SPA)-Skin interface

, 2021
Kikkert S, Sonar HA, Freund P, Paik J, Wenderoth N.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A blister-like soft nano-textured thermo-pneumatic actuator as an artificial muscle. [PDF]

Nanoscale, 2018
An S, Kang DJ, Yarin AL.
europepmc   +1 more source

Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Graham Deacon, Kaspar Althoefer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source