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Printing Untethered Self‐Reconfigurable, Self‐Amputating Soft Robots from Recyclable Self‐Healing Fibers [PDF]
Advanced ScienceRegarding the challenge of self‐reconfiguration and self‐amputation of soft robots, existing studies mainly focus on modular soft robots and connection methods between modules.
Yidan Gao +7 more
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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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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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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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Soft Robotic Surrogate Lung [PDF]
ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2019 Previous artificial lung surrogates used hydrogels or balloon-like inflatable structures without reproducing the alveolar network or breathing action within the lung. A physiologically accurate, air-filled lung model inspired by soft robotics is presented. The model, soft robotic surrogate lung (SRSL), is composed of clusters of artificial alveoli made
Olivier Ranunkel +2 more
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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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Review of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators and Their Applications in Soft Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 Due to the inherent rigidity of hard materials, the adaptability and flexibility of traditional robots are limited. Recently, soft robots became one of the most attractive areas.
Yaguang Guo +3 more
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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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Soft Rehabilitation and Nursing-Care Robots: A Review and Future Outlook
Applied Sciences, 2019 Rehabilitation and nursing-care robots have become one of the prevalent methods for assistant treatment of motor disorder patients in the field of medical rehabilitation.
Zengqi Peng, Jian Huang
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