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Soft Manipulators and Grippers: A Review
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2016 Soft robotics is a growing area of research which utilises the compliance and adaptability of soft structures to develop highly adaptive robotics for soft interactions. One area in which soft robotics has the ability to make significant impact is in the
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Customizing a self-healing soft pump for robot
Nature Communications, 2021 Utilizing soft pumps in soft robotics is an attractive approach to endow untethered soft robots with muscle-like actuation. Here, the authors report bio-inspired soft electronic pumps as driving power sources to drive actuation and self-healing in ...
Wei Tang +13 more
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova +9 more
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Anthropomorphic Soft Robotics - from Torque Control to Variable Intrinsic Compliance
, 2011 The paper gives an overview on the developments at the German Aerospace enter DLR towards anthropomorphic robots which not only try to approach the force and velocity performance of humans, but also have similar safety and robustness features based on a ...
Hirzinger, Gerd +21 more
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Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System
, 2022 Today's use of large-scale industrial robots is enabling extraordinary achievement on the assembly line, but these robots remain isolated from the humans on the factory floor because they are very powerful, and thus dangerous to be around.
Wood, Robert J +18 more
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CoRR, 2019 Traditional robots have rigid links and structures that limit their ability to interact with the dynamics of their immediate environment. For example, conventional robot manipulators with rigid links can only manipulate objects using specific end effectors.
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Slight Truncation Changes in Iron Oxide Nanocubes Strongly Affect Their Magnetic Properties
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Subtle variations in nanoparticle morphology can lead to significant changes in functional properties. An automated shape‐fitting method captures minor differences in corner truncation between iron oxide nanocubes of similar sizes synthesized under identical conditions, revealing pronounced disparities in their magnetic and hyperthermia behavior ...
Kingsley Poon +7 more
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Dual Actuator Wave‐Like Navigator: An Untethered Soft Crawling Robot for Multisurface Locomotion
Advanced Intelligent SystemsWave‐based mechanisms inspired by traveling wave locomotion in animals have shown great potential use in robots to navigate unstructured environments.
Mathias Jensen +5 more
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The Bioinspiration Design Paradigm: A Perspective for Soft Robotics
Biological inspiration is a key design approach for the development of innovative robots. Flapping wings, sensitized robotic skins, insect-inspired compound eyes, and artificial muscles are examples of nature acting as a source of inspiration for the ...
Kovac, Mirko
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Counterion Dependent Side‐Chain Relaxation Stiffens a Chemically Doped Thienothiophene Copolymer
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Oxidation of a thienothiophene copolymer, p(g3TT‐T2), via different doping strategies and dopant molecules resulted in materials with similar oxidation levels and a high electrical conductivity of ≈100 S cm−1. However, mechanical properties varied significantly, with sub‐glass transition temperatures and elastic moduli spanning from –44°C to –3°C and ...
Mariavittoria Craighero +12 more
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