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Self‐Regulated Self‐Healing Robotic Gripper for Resilient and Adaptive Grasping
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Flexible, soft materials are increasingly used for the fabrication of soft robots, as the inherent compliance and shock‐absorbance protect the robot from mechanical impact.
Huijiang Wang +5 more
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Adaptive Hydrogels With Spatiotemporal Stiffening Using pH‐Modulating Enzymes
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The chemomechanical coupling in an adaptive hydrogel is studied to further the development of adaptive hydrogels. This coupling is achieved by embedding a pH‐modulating enzyme in a pH‐responsive hydrogel. The enzymatic reaction can be triggered locally, which generates a pH‐decreasing wave throughout the system, increasing the crosslinking density and ...
Natascha Gray +3 more
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Jointless Bioinspired Soft Robotics by Harnessing Micro and Macroporosity
Advanced Science, 2023 Although natural continuum structures, such as the boneless elephant trunk, provide inspiration for new versatile grippers, highly deformable, jointless, and multidimensional actuation has still not been achieved.
Seonggun Joe +3 more
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Robust Polymer Hydrogels Improve Electric‐Fish‐Inspired Batteries
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Electric‐fish‐inspired hydrogel batteries based on ion‐concentration gradients offer an attractive route to soft power sources; however, the poor mechanical properties of existing hydrogels limit device assembly and performance. Here, we report poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate hydrogels that enable ion‐gradient batteries composed of
Nick Zahnd +5 more
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A novel design of shape-memory alloy-based soft robotic gripper with variable stiffness
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2020 Soft robotic grippers with compliance have great superiority in grabbing objects with irregular shape or fragility compared with traditional rigid grippers.
Mingfang Liu +3 more
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A Multi-Curvature, Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper for Enhanced Grasping Operations
Actuators, 2021 For soft grippers to be applied in atypical industrial environments, they must conform to an object’s exterior shape and momentarily change their stiffness.
Eun Jeong Song +4 more
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Automatic Romaine Heart Harvester [PDF]
, 2019 The Romaine Robotics Senior Design Team developed a romaine lettuce heart trimming system in partnership with a Salinas farm to address a growing labor shortage in the agricultural industry that is resulting in crops rotting in the field before they ...
Borst, Jonathan +2 more
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A variable stiffness soft gripper using granular jamming and biologically inspired pneumatic muscles [PDF]
, 2018 As the domains in which robots operate change the objects a robot may be required to grasp and manipulate are likely to vary significantly and often. Furthermore there is increasing likelihood that in the future robots will work collaboratively alongside
A Bicchi +34 more
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Multi‐Scale Interface Engineering of MXenes for Multifunctional Sensory Systems
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.MXenes, as two‐dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, demonstrate remarkable capabilities for multifunctional sensing applications. This review systematically examines multi‐scale interface engineering approaches that enhance sensing performance, enable diverse detection functionalities, and improve system‐level compatibility in MXene ...
Jiaying Liao, Sin‐Yi Pang, Jianhua Hao
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The Enhanced Adaptive Grasping of a Soft Robotic Gripper Using Rigid Supports
Applied System InnovationSoft pneumatic grippers can grasp soft or irregularly shaped objects, indicating potential applications in industry, agriculture, and healthcare. However, soft grippers rarely carry heavy and dense objects due to the intrinsic low modulus of soft ...
Zhikang Peng +6 more
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