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A Fluid-Driven Loop-Type Modular Soft Robot with Integrated Locomotion and Manipulation Capability
Biomimetics, 2023 In nature, some animals, such as snakes and octopuses, use their limited body structure to conduct various complicated tasks not only for locomotion but also for hunting.
Xin Sui +7 more
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Snakeskin-Inspired 3D Printable Soft Robot Composed of Multi-Modular Vacuum-Powered Actuators
Actuators, 2023 A modular soft actuator with snakeskin-inspired scales that generates an anisotropic friction force is designed and evaluated in this study. The actuator makes it possible to fabricate soft robots that can move on various surfaces in the natural ...
Seonghyeon Lee +3 more
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Applied Sciences, 2023 In complex and extreme environments, such as pipelines and polluted waters, gait programming has great significance for multibody segment locomotion robots.
Zhifeng Qi, Xiuting Sun
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Linbots: Soft Modular Robots Utilizing Voice Coils [PDF]
Soft Robotics, 2019 Robots performing automated tasks in uncontrolled environments need to adapt to environmental changes. Through building large collectives of robots, this robust and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple individual rules. These collectives can also be reconfigured, allowing for adaption to new tasks.
Mckenzie, Ross M. +4 more
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A soft crawling robot with a modular design based on electrohydraulic actuator
iScience, 2023 Summary: The soft structure of creatures without a rigid internal skeleton can easily adapt to any atypical environment. In the same context, robots with soft structures can change their shape to adapt to complex and varied surroundings.
Sohyun Kim, Youngsu Cha
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Adaptive and extreme changes in shape and configuration are the functional and morphological uniqueness of soft robots, but existing design approaches still rely on the predefined coordination of their “muscle” and “nerve” functions to produce such ...
Jaeyoung Yoon +7 more
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IEEE Access, 2021 Upper limb rehabilitation robot can effectively help patients recover motor ability. Existing rehabilitation robots are usually driven by rigid motors and the mechanical structures cannot adapt to the different patients with the different physical ...
Quan Liu +6 more
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Modular crawling robots using soft pneumatic actuators [PDF]
Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2020 AbstractCrawling robots have elicited much attention in recent years due to their stable and efficient locomotion. In this work, several crawling robots are developed using two types of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs), namely, an axial elongation SPA and a dual bending SPA.
Nianfeng Wang +4 more
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A 3D Printed Modular Soft Gripper Integrated With Metamaterials for Conformal Grasping
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 A single universal robotic gripper with the capacity to fulfill a wide variety of gripping and grasping tasks has always been desirable. A three-dimensional (3D) printed modular soft gripper with highly conformal soft fingers that are composed of ...
Charbel Tawk +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Earthworms have entirely soft bodies mainly composed of circular and longitudinal muscle bundles but can handle the complexity of unstructured environments with exceptional multifunctionality.
Zhonggui Fang +5 more
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