soft roboticsThe rapidly expanding field of soft robotics has provided multiple examples of how entirely soft machines and actuators can outperform conventional rigid robots in terms of adaptability, maneuverability, and safety. Unfortunately, the soft and flexible materials used in their construction ...
More importantly, soft robotic technologies hold great promises for biomedical applications including wearable, prosthetic robots, and miniaturized surgical devices. In this collection at Nature Communications and Communications Materials, we aim to bring together cutting-edge soft robotics research crossing ...
Soft, pneumatic actuators might not be a phrase that comes up in daily conversations, but more likely than not you might have benefited from their utility. The devices use compressed air to power motion, and with sensing capabilities, they’ve proven to be a critical backbone in a variety of...
Sensor morphology has been a long-standing attractive research theme to biologists, cognitive scientists, and most recently, robotic engineers thanks to the rapid emergence of soft robotics. While biological sensing systems often evolved with adaptive morphology enabling their functionality in various enviro...
We begin by covering principles of tactile sensing in humans, robotics, and human-machine interaction. This is followed by an overview of soft material transducers capable of pressure and force sensing. This includes resistive, capacitive, magnetic, barometric, and optical sensing techniques. We ...
This book includes representative research from the state‐of‐the‐art in the emerging field of soft robotics, with a special focus on bioinspired soft robotics for underwater applications. Topics include novel materials, sensors, actuators, and system design for distributed estimation and control of...
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To solve this problem, people have been investigating various soft robotics technologies focusing on sensors and actuators made of hyperelastic materials. This chapter will first introduce the recent advances in highly stretchable artificial skin and flexible artificial muscle technologies that could be ...
robotic links can be seen as various "segments" in a robotic limb. In this study, ProTac is designed as a soft, cylindrical segment for arobotic arm. What makes it remarkable is how the researchers incorporated the tactile and proximity sensing capabilities in a...
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