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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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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 Feet play an important role in the adaptive, versatile, and stable locomotion of legged creatures. Accordingly, several robotic research studies have used biological feet as the inspiration for the design of robot feet in traversing complex terrains ...
Muhammad Bilal Khan +4 more
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Soft Robots Manufacturing: A Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 The growing interest in soft robots comes from the new possibilities offered by these systems to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies. Many innovative solutions have been developed in recent years to design soft components and systems.
Schmitt, François +3 more
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Soft climbing robot with magnetic feet for multimodal locomotion
Scientific Reports, 2023 Inspection robots that can be used to inspect man-made structures have significant potential for industrial applications, but existing soft robots are not well suited for the exploration of complex metallic structures with many obstacles.
Gijun Park, Hugo Rodrigue
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Stiffness-Tuneable Segment for Continuum Soft Robots with Vertebrae
Machines, 2022 In addition to high compliance to unstructured environments, soft robots can be further improved to gain the advantages of rigid robots by increasing stiffness.
Zhipeng Liu +3 more
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, 2023 Soft robot are celebrated for their propensity to enable compliant and complex robot-environment interactions. Soft robotic manipulators, or slender continuum structure robots have the potential to exploit these interactions to enable new exploration and
Stella, Francesco +7 more
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Stretchable optical fibre sensor for soft surgical robot shape reconstruction [PDF]
, 2021 Soft robotics presents several advantages in the field of minimally invasive surgery. However, existing methods have not fully addressed problems related to soft robot shape sensing due to the complex motion of soft robots and the stretchable nature of ...
He, Yanlin +13 more
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Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018 Abstract This description of “soft robotics” is not intended to be a conventional review, in the sense of a comprehensive technical summary of a developing field. Rather, its objective is to describe soft robotics as a new field—one that offers opportunities to chemists and ...
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Wireless Hybrid-Actuated Soft Miniature Robot for Biomedical Applications
ActuatorsWireless soft miniature robots have been studied for biomedical applications. However, the wireless soft miniature robots developed so far are mainly composed of synthetic polymers that do not guarantee biocompatibility and biodegradability. Additionally,
Heera Kim, Kyongsu Lee, Gwangjun Go
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Design and Motion Analysis of a Soft-Limb Robot Inspired by Bacterial Flagella
Biomimetics, 2023 Soft robots demonstrate an impressive ability to adapt to objects and environments. However, current soft mobile robots often use a single mode of movement.
Changlong Ye +4 more
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