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Scientific Reports, 2021 Wrist rehabilitation is needed to help post-stroke and post-surgery patients recover from wrist fracture or injury. Traditional rehabilitation training is conducted by a therapist in a hospital, which hinders timely treatment due to the corresponding ...
Yaxi Wang, Qingsong Xu
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A Supernumerary Soft Robotic Limb for Reducing Hand-Arm Vibration Syndromes Risks
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 The most common causes of the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) have been identified as joint overloading, bad postures, and vibrations.
Andrea S. Ciullo +4 more
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Biomimetics, 2019 In Nature, the adaptability of many organisms and their capability to survive in challenging and dynamically changing environments are closely linked to their characteristics and the morphology of their body parts [...]
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Advanced Materials, 2018 AbstractAdvances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented, covering different material sets, physical principles, and device architectures.
Jun Shintake +3 more
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WormâInspired Soft Robots Enable Adaptable Pipeline and Tunnel Inspection
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 The inspection, maintenance, and repair of pipeline and tunnel infrastructure have motivated the increasing research in the development of suitable robots with high flexibility, good adaptability, and large load capacity.
Xiaomin Liu +4 more
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Soft Robotics for Chemists [PDF]
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011 Soft robots: A methodology based on embedded pneumatic networks (PneuNets) is described that enables large-amplitude actuations in soft elastomers by pressurizing embedded channels. Examples include a structure that can change its curvature from convex to concave, and devices that act as compliant grippers for handling fragile objects (e.g., a chicken ...
Ilievski, Filip +4 more
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Design and Applications of Soft Actuators Based on Digital Light Processing (DLP) 3D Printing
IEEE Access, 2023 Compared with rigid robots, soft robots have the advantages of strong environmental adaptability, good human-robot interaction, and simple control systems; therefore, soft actuators have been widely studied in recent years.
Jingjing Wan, Lechen Sun, Tianhao Du
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Safely catching aerial micro-robots in mid-air using an open-source aerial robot with soft gripper
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 This work focuses on catching safely an aerial micro-robot in mid-air using another aerial robot that is equipped with a universal soft gripper. To avoid aerodynamic disturbances such as downwash, that would push the target robot away, we follow a ...
Zhichao Liu +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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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011 This manuscript describes a unique class of locomotive robot: A soft robot, composed exclusively of soft materials (elastomeric polymers), which is inspired by animals (e.g., squid, starfish, worms) that do not have hard internal skeletons. Soft lithography was used to fabricate a pneumatically actuated robot capable of sophisticated locomotion (e.g ...
Robert F, Shepherd +8 more
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