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Artificial Muscles: Electrostatic Actuation and Design Tradeoffs. [PDF]
Colborn GX +8 more
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Double Helix Structure for Stable Flexural Actuation in Soft Robotics
This work introduces a double‐helical architecture for soft robotic actuators that enhances twisting resistance, increases output force, and minimizes undesired deformation. Actuators driven by shape‐memory alloy wires exhibit a roughly fivefold higher torsional/flexural stiffness ratio and 50% greater force output.
Louis Plottel +4 more
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Identification for a class of soft pneumatic actuators.
There is an increasing interest to advance the state-of-the-art of soft robots due to its capability to extend the limits of traditional rigid robot manipulators. Many novel soft robots have been designed and proposed in the recent years of which, inflatable soft robots attract considerable research efforts, as the actuation mechanism is read- ily ...
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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim +4 more
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Design and Research of Multi Segment Exoskeleton Reconfigurable Soft Finger Actuator. [PDF]
Zhang Z +6 more
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Microfluidic Valve‐Integrated Garment for Smooth Sequential Gradient Mechanotherapy
We present a soft wearable sleeve that delivers smooth, gap‐free compression using overlapping air‐filled actuators and tiny microfluidic valves. The system reduces bulk, lowers power needs, and uses a smartphone‐sized control box. It can provide sequential gradient compression, gradient pressure holding, and fast deflation, supporting more portable ...
Run Ze Gao +5 more
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Pre‐Curved Everting Robots With Embedded Steering Intelligence Fabricated by CO2 Laser Welding
Design and experimental demonstration of a laser welded growing robot for anatomically guided navigation. The robot follows an aortic arch phantom entering the branchiocephalic branch through steering by design. The figure shows the physical phantom setup, CAD defined weld geometry and full robot eversion.
Brandon Saldarriaga +5 more
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Cteno‐Bot: An Untethered Metachronally Swimming Robot With Magnetoactive Propulsors
We present Cteno‐bot, an untethered ctenophore‐inspired robot which swims using metachronally coordinated appendages. A single mechanism controls up to 216 magnetoactive propulsors via a dynamically varying magnetic field. We show that the swimming speed of the robot can be increased without a corresponding increase in power requirement, simply by ...
David J. Peterman, Margaret L. Byron
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Design, manufacturing, and testing of a novel omnidirectional soft sleeve actuator. [PDF]
Abboodi M, Doumit M.
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