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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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Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, we introduce a design principle to develop novel soft modular robots based on tensegrity structures and inspired by the cytoskeleton of living cells.
A Burks +12 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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Safety experiments for small robots investigating the potential of soft materials in mitigating the harm to the head due to impacts [PDF]
, 2019 There is a growing interest in social robots to be considered in the therapy of children with autism due to their effectiveness in improving the outcomes.
Alhaddad, Ahmad Yaser +3 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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Solar‐Driven Soft Robots [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2021 AbstractStimuli‐responsive materials have been lately employed in soft robotics enabling new classes of robots that can emulate biological systems. The untethered operation of soft materials with high power light, magnetic field, and electric field has been previously demonstrated.
Seyed M. Mirvakili +3 more
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Reconfigurable Soft Robots by Building Blocks
Advanced Science, 2022 Soft robots are of increasing interest as they can cope with challenges that are poorly addressed by conventional rigid‐body robots (e.g., limited flexibility).
Mohamed G. B. Atia +4 more
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Design, Modelling, and Control of Continuum Arms with Pneumatic Artificial Muscles: A Review
Machines, 2023 In this research paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of the current state of soft robots actuated with pneumatic artificial muscles and emphasise their distinct advantages over rigid robots, including exceptional flexibility, adaptability, and ...
Oleksandr Sokolov +2 more
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A compact low-cost electronic hardware design for actuating soft robots [PDF]
, 2015 A low cost, compact embedded design approach for actuating soft robots is presented. The complete fabrication procedure and mode of operation was demonstrated, and the performance of the complete system was also demonstrated by building a microcontroller
Hayashi, Yoshikatsu +2 more
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Touchless interactive teaching of soft robots through flexible bimodal sensory interfaces
Nature Communications, 2022 Soft robots are challenging to model and program. Non-specialists face non-negligible obstacles when working with soft robots to perform tasks. Here, the authors propose a method to interactively teach soft robots complex motions through flexible ...
Wenbo Liu +17 more
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