The cover picture shows the concept and inspiration for a soft actuated material, in this case the muscular structure of the heart. The image depicts the muscular fibers from the heart inspiring the numerical modeling of the actuators and the design of contractile actuators embedded in a soft ...
With the advance of smart material science, robotics is evolving from rigid robots to soft robots. Compared to rigid robots, soft robots can safely interact with the environment, easily navigate in unstructured fields, and be minimized to operate in narr
Soft Robotics: A Perspective—Current Trends and Prospects for the Future Carmel Majidi Vol. 1, No. 1July 2013 Control Strategies for Soft Robotic Manipulators: A Survey Thomas George Thuruthel, Yasmin Ansari, Egidio Falotico, and Cecilia Laschi ...
Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics. Trends Biotechnol. 2013;31(5):287–94. Article CAS Google Scholar Park, Y.-L, Chen, B.-r, Pérez-Arancibia NO, Young D, Stirling L, Wood RJ, Goldfield EC, Nagpal R. Design and control of a bio-inspired soft wearable robotic ...
Hermes, M., Ishida, M., Luhar, M. & Tolley, M. T. Bioinspired shape-changing soft robots for underwater locomotion: Actuation and optimization for crawling and swimming.Bioinspired Sens. Actuation Control Underw. Soft Robot. Syst.7–39 (2021). ...
Transparent hydrogels are key materials for many applications, such as contact lens, imperceptible soft robotics and invisible wearable devices. Introducing large and engineerable optical anisotropy offers great prospect for endowing them with extra bire
The bioinspired (caterpillar) modular robot design is a soft monolithic body which interacts with the environment at discrete contact points (caterpillar prolegs). The deformable body is actuated by muscle-like shape memory alloy coils and the discrete contact points manipulate friction in a binary ...
The stress-strain curve of the soft material was tested and the material parameters of Yeoh model was obtained by fitting the experimental curve. Finite element analysis was used to predict the whole performance before MDoF SPA was fabricated. In Section 3, we tested the elongation distance, ...
On average the motion can be mapped to that of active Brownian particles, and the averaged mean squared displacement (MSD) shows the three expected regimes: purely thermal diffusion at very short times, actuated at intermediate times, and enhanced diffusion at long times. Rotational diffusion is ...
Bioinspired multimodal soft robot driven by a single dielectric elastomer actuator and two flexible electroadhesive feet Locomotion is an important ability of animals and bioinspired mobile robots. It is, however, challenging for current soft mobile robots to achieve multimod... Y Guo,J Guo,L Liu...