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Advances in Stimuli-Responsive Soft Robots with Integrated Hybrid Materials
Actuators, 2020 Hybrid stimuli-responsive soft robots have been extensively developed by incorporating multi-functional materials, such as carbon-based nanoparticles, nanowires, low-dimensional materials, and liquid crystals.
Hyegyo Son, ChangKyu Yoon
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Pneumatic Soft Robots: Challenges and Benefits
Actuators, 2022 In the field of robotics, soft robots have been showing great potential in the areas of medical care, education, service, rescue, exploration, detection, and wearable devices due to their inherently high flexibility, good compliance, excellent ...
Hang Su +6 more
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Modular Stimuli‐Responsive Valves for Pneumatic Soft Robots
Advanced Intelligent SystemsPneumatic soft robots have several advantages, including facile fabrication, versatile deformation modes, and safe human–machine interaction. However, pneumatic soft robots typically rely on mechatronics to interact with their environment, which can ...
Qiguang He +9 more
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Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for biomedical soft robots
Materials Today Advances, 2023 Soft robots have opened an emerging research direction in robotics due to their promising performance enabled by functional materials and fabrication technology.
Yang Yang, Pengcheng Jiao
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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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Recent progress on underwater soft robots: adhesion, grabbing, actuating, and sensing
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 The research on biomimetic robots, especially soft robots with flexible materials as the main structure, is constantly being explored. It integrates multi-disciplinary content, such as bionics, material science, mechatronics engineering, and control ...
Yeming Zhang +7 more
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Regenerating Soft Robots through Neural Cellular Automata
, 2021 Morphological regeneration is an important feature that highlights the environ- mental adaptive capacity of biological systems. Lack of this regenerative capacity significantly limits the resilience of machines and the environments they can operate in ...
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Spray Coated Piezoresistive Bend Sensor for Controlled Movements in Soft Robots
, 2022 This work presents a flexible piezoresistive sensor for measuring the bending angles to facilitate controlled movements in soft robots. The sensors was realized using a piezoresistive sensing material prepared by mixing graphite in a polyvinylidene ...
Oliver Ozioko +3 more
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Advances in Biodegradable Soft Robots
, 2022 Biodegradable soft robots have been proposed for a variety of intelligent applications in soft robotics, flexible electronics, and bionics. Biodegradability offers an extraordinary functional advantage to soft robots for operations accompanying smart ...
ChangKyu Yoon +5 more
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4D Multiscale Origami Soft Robots: A Review
, 2022 Time-dependent shape-transferable soft robots are important for various intelligent applications in flexible electronics and bionics. Four-dimensional (4D) shape changes can offer versatile functional advantages during operations to soft robots that ...
ChangKyu Yoon +7 more
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