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A Fast Soft Continuum Catheter Robot Manufacturing Strategy Based on Heterogeneous Modular Magnetic Units

Micromachines, 2023
Developing small-scale continuum catheter robots with inherent soft bodies and high adaptability to different environments holds great promise for biomedical engineering applications.
Tieshan Zhang, Gen Li, Xiong Yang, Hao Ren, Dong Guo, Hong Wang, Ki Chan, Zhou Ye, Tianshuo Zhao, Chengfei Zhang, Wanfeng Shang, Yajing Shen   +11 more
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Soft, Modular Power for Composing Robots with Embodied Energy

Advanced Materials
Abstract The adaptable, modular structure of muscles, combined with their confluent energy storage allows for numerous architectures found in nature: trunks, tongues, and tentacles to name some more complex ones.
Chong‐Chan Kim, Anunth Rao Ramaswami, Robert F. Shepherd   +2 more
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Peristaltic Motion Enabled by Pneumatic Artificial Muscles (PAMs) as Structural “Soft–Stiff” Actuators in a Modular Worm-Inspired Robot

Biomimetics
This paper considers the design, manufacture, and testing of a prototype “soft–stiff” worm-inspired robot referred to herein, as the PneumaticallyActuated PeristaLtic Advancing Modular (PALAM) robot.
Beth Tinsley, Sergio Caponi, Lucy McAteer, Gleb Nebesnyy, Dean Sammanthan, Ella Sonia Keza, Parvez Alam   +6 more
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Motion Patterns Under Multiple Constraints and Master–Slave Control of a Serial Modular Biomimetic Robot with 3-DOF Hydraulic Muscle-Driven Continuum Segments

Biomimetics
Soft modular biomimetic robots, driven by flexible actuators, are extensively used in various fields due to their excellent flexibility, environmental adaptability, and isomorphism.
Yunrui Jia, Zengmeng Zhang, Junhao Guo, Yong Yang, Yongjun Gong   +4 more
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Design of Soft, Modular Appendages for a Bio-inspired Multi-Legged Terrestrial Robot [PDF]

arXiv.org, 2023
Soft robots have the ability to adapt to their environment, which makes them suitable for use in disaster areas and agricultural fields, where their mobility is constrained by complex terrain.
A. N. Siddiquee, Benjamin Colfer, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Novel Shape Memory Alloy Modular Robot with Spatially Stable Structure

Advanced Intelligent Systems
Soft robots exhibit significant flexibility but normally lack stability owing to their inherent low stiffness. Current solutions for achieving variable stiffness or implementing lock mechanisms tend to involve complex structures.
Junlong Xiao, Michael Yu Wang, Chao Chen
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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., Sayed, Mohammed E., Nemitz, Markus P., Flynn, Brian W., Stokes, Adam A.   +4 more
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Reconfigurable Innervation of Modular Soft Machines via Soft, Sticky, and Instant Electronic Adhesive Interlocking

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, Junghwan Byun, Minjo Park, Hayun Kim, Woongbae Kim, Jinsu Yoon, Kyu-Jin Cho, Yongtaek Hong   +7 more
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Design and Control of a Reconfigurable Upper Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton With Soft Modular Joints

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, Yang Liu, Chang Zhu, Xingxing Guo, Wei Meng, Qingsong Ai, Jiwei Hu   +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, Bicheng Chen, Xiandong Ge, Xianmin Zhang, Wenbin Wang   +4 more
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