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Untethered magneto-thermal flexible actuators for soft robotics
, 2023 Soft robots are devices that can perform delicate and sensitive movements. Such robots have flexible actuators activated by external triggers. Magnetic soft actuators, triggered by external magnetic fields, can be operated remotely and wirelessly.
Ge, Qi +8 more
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Solvent‐Driven Biomimetic Soft Sensors and Actuators
Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2023 The emergence of soft actuators that exhibit large, complex, programmable, and reversible shape deformation is of fundamental interest having potential applications in optics, medicals, and robotics fields.
Quan Sun, Cédric Ayela, Damien Thuau
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Kinematics and statics of eccentric soft bending actuators with external payloads [PDF]
, 2019 Soft bending actuators, born with the considerable capacity of structural flexibility and environmental adaptability, have been widely favored for years. However, the highly nonlinear coupling between force and deformation in such robots are very complex,
Chen, Lisha +4 more
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Inkjet Printing of Complex Soft Machines with Densely Integrated Electrostatic Actuators
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 A multimaterial inkjet printing method for integrated soft multifunctional machines is reported, combining dense arrays of electrostatic actuators, multilayer electrical routing, and complex networks of microfluidic channels in one printing process. Most
Samuel Schlatter +3 more
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Low‐Voltage Soft Actuators for Interactive Human–Machine Interfaces
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 Soft electrical actuators driven by low voltages are promising for interactive human–machine interfaces (iHMI) applications including executing orders to complete various tasks and communicating with humans.
Shaohua Chen +3 more
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Nanostructured materials for soft robotics - sensors and actuators
, 2022 S.147-156The advances in nanotechnology during the past two decades have led to several breakthroughs in material sciences. Ongoing and future tasks are related to the transfer of the unique properties of nanostructured materials to the macroscopic ...
Kolaric, Ivica +2 more
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Magnetically Controlled Soft Robotics Utilizing Elastomers and Gels in Actuation: A Review
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 A magnetic field has unique advantages in controlling soft robotics inside of an enclosed space, such as surgical catheters or untethered drug‐delivering robots operating in the human body.
Hyun‐Joong Chung +2 more
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Origami-Inspired Soft Pneumatic Actuators: Generalization and Design Optimization
, 2023 Soft actuators are essential to soft robots and can also be used with rigid-bodied robots. This paper is focused on methods for improving the applicability of origami-inspired soft pneumatic actuators (OSPA).
Gary M. Bone, Abdelrahman Zaghloul
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Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2014 There has been increased interest in use of pneumatic actuators in many fields, such as medical care and welfare. In particular, proposed pneumatic soft actuator with soft material has many advantages such as low mass, flexibility, safety and user ...
Hironari TANIGUCHI +2 more
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Actuators, 2020 In new-generation soft robots, the actuation performance can be increased by using multiple materials in the actuator designs. However, the lifetime of these actuators is often limited due to failure that occurs at the weak multi-material interfaces that
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