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Texoskeletons: Developing the Fundamental Technologies for Creating Intelligent Soft Robotic Clothing With Integrated 1D Sensors and Actuators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traditional wearable exoskeletons rely on rigid structures, which limit comfort, flexibility, and everyday usability. This work introduces the fundamental technologies to create the first soft, lightweight, intelligent textile‐based exoskeletons (Texoskeletons) built using 1D sensors and actuators.
Amy Lukomiak, Rameesh Bulathsinghala, Jack Varga, Shuxin Meng, Kalana Marasinghe, Imaad Refai, Biyon Fernando, Amitkumar Patel, Chamika M. Halloluwa‐Arachchige, Carlos Oliveira, Arash M. Shahidi, Zahra Rahemtulla, Alexander Turner, Ziyun Ding, Bernard X. W. Liew, Andy Kerr, Ezio Preatoni, Theo Hughes‐Riley, Ishara Dharmasena, Pasindu Lugoda   +19 more
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Design, manufacturing, and testing of a novel omnidirectional soft sleeve actuator

Scientific Reports
Soft actuators have become central to modern robotics due to their inherent flexibility, enabling safer and more adaptable interactions. Within this domain, omnidirectional actuators are particularly valuable because they enable multidirectional motion ...
Mohammed Abboodi, Marc Doumit
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A Dual‐Origami Design that Enables the Quasisequential Deployment and Bending Motion of Soft Robots and Grippers

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022
Soft fluidic actuators produce continuous and life‐like motions that are intrinsically safe, but current designs are not yet mature enough to enable large deployment with high force and low‐cost fabrication methods.
Woongbae Kim, Jaemin Eom, Kyu-Jin Cho
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Machine Learning‐Assisted Inverse Design of Soft and Multifunctional Hybrid Liquid Metal Composites

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A machine learning framework is presented for inverse design of synthesizable multifunctional composites containing both liquid metal and solid inclusions. By integrating physics‐based modeling, data‐driven prediction, and Bayesian optimization, the approach enables intelligent design of experiments to identify optimal compositions and realize these ...
Lijun Zhou, Yunsik Ohm, Ren‐Mian Chin, Olivia Kerr, Krithika Manohar, Mohammad H. Malakooti   +5 more
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Safe supervisory control of soft robot actuators

Although soft robots show safer interactions with their environment than traditional robots, soft mechanisms and actuators still have significant potential for damage or degradation particularly during unmodeled contact.
Wertz, Anthony T., Majidi, Carmel, Patterson, Zach J., Sabelhaus, Andrew P.   +3 more
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High-performance structure of a coil-shaped soft-actuator consisting of polymer threads and carbon nanotube yarns

AIP Advances, 2018
We fabricated thermally driven metal-free soft-actuators consisting of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) threads as the actuator and carbon nanotube (CNT) yarns as the heating source.
Hirotaka Inoue, Takayuki Yoshiyama, Masaki Hada, Daiki Chujo, Yoshitaka Saito, Takeshi Nishikawa, Yoshifumi Yamashita, Wataru Takarada, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Yasuhiko Hayashi   +9 more
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Transfer Printing and Reconfiguration of Soft Electronics Using Digital Microfluidics and Laser Machining

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This paper presents a digital microfluidics‐based technique for transferring and reconfiguring soft nanomembranes. Laser‐machined nanothin membranes are picked up, transported, and aligned via tailored surface tension and the actuation of water droplets, enabling the development of flexible electronics, the integration of functional materials on 3D ...
Quang Anh Nguyen, Chi Cong Nguyen, Tran Bach Dang, Phuoc Thien Phan, Jordan Thorpe, Michael Listyawan, Nhat Minh Doan, Sinuo Zhao, Hongru Chen, Trung Thien Hoang, Mingsheng Xu, Jisheng Han, Thanh Nho Do, Adam Hill, Timothée Mouterde, Hoang‐Phuong Phan   +15 more
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Design of soft multi-material pneumatic actuators based on principal strain field

Materials & Design, 2019
As a key component of soft robots, soft actuators are responsible for producing motion. There has been continuous research on searching for efficient and systematical design tools to accommodate various applications of soft actuators.
Longwei Ding, Ning Dai, Xiaoming Mu, Shaohui Xie, Xu Fan, Dawei Li, Xiaosheng Cheng   +6 more
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On Combining Shape Memory Alloy Actuators and Pneumatic Actuators for Performance Enhancement in Soft Robotics

Through soft robotics, flexible structures confer an elevated degree of protection and safety in usage, as well as precision and reliability.
Adrian Burlacu, Florian-Alexandru Brașoveanu   +1 more
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Dual‐Mode Magnetic Elastomer for On‐Demand Motion and Degradation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A dual‐mode magnetic elastomer is introduced, enabling DC field‐driven programmable actuation and AC field‐driven magnetothermal degradation. GHz‐range magnetic fields generate ultrafast heating of magnetic nanoparticles that activates cleavage of the silicone elastomer matrix.
Jieun Han, Hyun An, Min‐Ha Oh, Yu‐Lim Lee, Woojin Jeon, Kyung‐Sub Kim, Jae‐Hwan Lee, Seungmin Kang, Yoon‐Nam Kim, Ji‐Won Kang, Daewhan Kim, Min Sang Kwon, Sang‐Koog Kim, Seung‐Kyun Kang   +13 more
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