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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, Charbel Tawk, Charbel Tawk, Rahim Mutlu, Gursel Alici, Gursel Alici   +5 more
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All-in-one optically interactive soft robots with embedded liquid crystal holography [PDF]

Light: Science & Applications
Soft robots capable of self-driven information transmission hold great promise for enabling intelligent interactions that better emulate the behavior of living organisms; however, achieving such systems remains elusive.
Zi-Chen Zhang, Yang Wei, Ze-Yu Wang, Ying-Hao Fu, Ren Zheng, Ning Wang, Yu Wang, Ling-Ling Ma, Yan-Qing Lu   +8 more
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SoftRafts: floating and adaptive soft modular robots

npj Robotics
Modular robots offer adaptability and reconfigurability, yet their application in aquatic environments and dynamic multi-tasking—particularly for manipulation—remains underexplored. We hypothesize that incorporating soft-bending capabilities into modular
Luyang Zhao, Yitao Jiang, Chun-Yi She, Alberto Quattrini Li, Muhao Chen, Devin Balkcom   +5 more
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On the Exploration of LM-Based Soft Modular Robot Design

CoRR
Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in modeling real-world knowledge and enhancing knowledge-based generation tasks. In this paper, we further explore the potential of using LLMs to aid in the design of soft modular robots, taking into account both user instructions and physical laws, to reduce the reliance on ...
Weicheng Ma, Luyang Zhao, Chun-Yi She, Yitao Jiang, Alan Sun, Bo Zhu 0002, Devin J. Balkcom, Soroush Vosoughi   +7 more
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Dual Modular Soft Robot with Multi-Terrain Movement Ability

Shanghai Jiaotong Daxue xuebao, 2022
Aimed at the problems of limited application range, single movement scene, inability of climbing, and limited space movement of the multi-terrain movement robot, a novel dual module soft robot with the multi-terrain movement ability is proposed.
WANG Yuxuan, LIU Zhaoyu, WANG Jiangbei, FEI Yanqiong
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Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots [PDF]

Advanced Robotics, 2012
To date, most modular robotic systems lack flexibility when increasing the number of modules due to their hard building blocks and rigid connection mechanisms. In order to improve adaptation to environmental changes, softness on the module level might be beneficial. However, coping with softness requires fundamental rethinking the way modules are built.
Germann, Jürg Markus, Dommer, Michael, Pericet Camara, Ramon, Floreano, Dario   +3 more
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Acoustic Communication and Sensing for Inflatable Modular Soft Robots [PDF]

2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
Modular soft robots combine the strengths of two traditionally separate areas of robotics. As modular robots, they can show robustness to individual failure and reconfigurability; as soft robots, they can deform and undergo large shape changes in order to adapt to their environment, and have inherent human safety. However, for sensing and communication
Daniel S. Drew, Matthew R. Devlin, Elliot W. Hawkes, Sean Follmer   +3 more
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Design of a cognitive neural predictive controller for mobile robot [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel UniversityIn this thesis, a cognitive neural predictive controller system has been designed to guide a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot during continuous and non ...
Al‐Araji, Ahmed
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Self-Reconfiguration Sequence of Lattice Modular Soft Robots

Shanghai Jiaotong Daxue xuebao, 2021
A lattice self-reconfigurable modular soft robot based on the expansion-contraction motion rule is designed, which is composed of several soft modules, each of which is composed of a silica gel main body with positive hexahedron configuration and a ...
LIU Jiapeng, WANG Jiangbei, DING Ye, FEI Yanqiong   +3 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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