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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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Hybrid fluidic actuation for a foam-based soft actuator [PDF]
2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020 Actuation means for soft robotic structures are manifold: despite actuation mechanisms such as tendon-driven manipulators or shape memory alloys, the majority of soft robotic actuators are fluidically actuated - either purely by positive or negative air pressure or by hydraulic actuation only.
Jan Peters 0004 +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 Twisting Actuator
Soft Robotics, 2023 Soft actuators have shown great advantages in compliance and morphology matched for manipulation of delicate objects and inspection in a confined space. There is an unmet need for a soft actuator that can provide torsional motion to, for example, enlarge working space and increase degrees of freedom.
Diancheng Li +10 more
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A Modular Soft Gripper with Combined Pneu-Net Actuators
, 2023 Soft Pneumatic-Network (Pneu-Net) Actuators (SPAs) have been used extensively in making soft grippers, due to their simple driving forms and large bending deformation.
Jianlong Dai +6 more
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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
Seppe Terryn +4 more
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