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Evaluation of Fiber-Reinforced Modular Soft Actuators for Individualized Soft Rehabilitation Gloves
Actuators, 2022 Applying soft actuators to hand motion assist for rehabilitation has been receiving increasing interest in recent years. Pioneering research efforts have shown the feasibility of soft rehabilitation gloves (SRGs).
Shota Kokubu +7 more
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ActuatorsThis review will examine the rapidly growing field of soft robotics, with a special emphasis on soft robotic actuators and their applications in bioengineering.
Osura Perera +3 more
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Soft material for soft actuators
Nature Communications, 2017 The development of self-contained electrically driven soft actuators with high strain density is difficult. Here the authors show a single self-contained soft robust composite material that combines the elastic properties of a polymeric matrix and the ...
Aslan Miriyev, Kenneth Stack, Hod Lipson
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Sensorless force and displacement estimation in soft actuators.
Soft Matter, 2023 Sensing forms an integral part of soft matter based robots due to their compliance, dependence on loading conditions, and virtually infinite degrees of freedom.
Joshi S, Paik J.
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Characterization of bending balloon actuators
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 The emerging field of soft robotics often relies on soft actuators powered by pressurized fluids to obtain a variety of movements. Strategic incorporation of soft actuators can greatly increase the degree of freedom of soft robots thereby bestowing them ...
Ung Hyun Ko +5 more
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Review of Soft Actuators Controlled with Electrical Stimuli: IPMC, DEAP, and MRE
Applied Sciences, 2023 Soft actuators have been developed for a variety of applications, including soft grippers, artificial muscles, wearables, tactile devices, and medical devices.
Jakub Bernat +3 more
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Performance Metrics for Fluidic Soft Robot Rotational Actuators
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 The field of soft robotics is continuing to grow as more researchers see the potential for robots that can safely interact in unmodeled, unstructured, and uncertain environments.
Levi Rupert +2 more
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Light-Responsive Soft Actuators: Mechanism, Materials, Fabrication, and Applications
, 2021 Soft robots are those that can move like living organisms and adapt to the surrounding environment. Compared with traditional rigid robots, the advantages of soft robots, in terms of material flexibility, human–computer interaction, and biological ...
Yaoli Huang +5 more
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Design, Fabrication, and Performance Test of a New Type of Soft-Robotic Gripper for Grasping
Sensors, 2022 This investigation presents a novel soft-robotic pneumatic gripper that consists of three newly proposed soft actuators. The newly proposed soft actuators adopt a composite structure of two kinds of pneumatic networks which can work independently and ...
Hongjie Zhang +3 more
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Evolution from Telescoping to Bending: An Origami-Inspired Flexible Bending Actuator
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2023 Soft actuators have great potential in human–machine interaction and soft robotics innovation. Origami exhibiting outstanding structural and topological properties can be a paradigm for people to design various soft robots.
Zhaowen Shao +3 more
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