E-F Markus Henke,Samuel Schlatter,Iain A Anderson
E-F Markus Henke
Entirely soft robots with animal-like behavior and integrated artificial nervous systems will open up totally new perspectives and applications. To produce them, we must integrate control and actuation in the same soft structure. Soft actua...
Alexandre B Desbiens,Jean-Philippe Lucking Bigué,Catherine Véronneau et al.
Alexandre B Desbiens et al.
To perform untethered operations, soft robots require mesoscale power units (10-1000 W) with high energy densities. In this perspective, air-breathing combustion offers an interesting alternative to battery-powered systems, provided suffici...
Novel Variable-Stiffness Robotic Fingers with Built-In Position Feedback [0.03%]
一种内置位置反馈的新型变刚度机器人手指
Yang Yang,Yonghua Chen,Yingtian Li et al.
Yang Yang et al.
Despite the increasing popularity of soft robotic research, the application of soft robots is hindered by their limited ability to change compliance and acquire force and position feedback. In this article, both the controllability of compl...
A Biologically Inspired, Functionally Graded End Effector for Soft Robotics Applications [0.03%]
一种仿生软体机器人功能梯度末端执行器
Kitty Kumar,Jia Liu,Caleb Christianson et al.
Kitty Kumar et al.
Soft robotic actuators offer many advantages over their rigid counterparts, but they often are unable to apply highly localized point loads. In contrast, many invertebrates have not only evolved extremely strong "hybrid appendages" that are...
Pneumatically Actuated Soft Micromold Device for Fabricating Collagen and Matrigel Microparticles [0.03%]
用于制造胶原蛋白和基质胶微粒的气动软微模具设备
Po-Jung Huang,Chao-Kai Chou,Chun-Te Chen et al.
Po-Jung Huang et al.
Collagen microparticles have recently gained more attention as viable cell confinement blocks in many biomedical research fields. Small volume and high surface area of collagen structure improve cell confinement, viability, and proliferatio...
Proprioceptive Flexible Fluidic Actuators Using Conductive Working Fluids [0.03%]
基于导电工作流体的本征柔顺流体执行器
Tim Helps,Jonathan Rossiter
Tim Helps
Soft robotic systems generally require both soft actuators and soft sensors to perform complex functions. Separate actuators and sensors are often combined into one composite device when proprioception (self-sensing) is required. In this ar...
Tuan Anh Luong,Kyeong Ho Cho,Min Geun Song et al.
Tuan Anh Luong et al.
Artificial muscle actuators made from commercial nylon fishing lines have been recently introduced and shown as a new type of actuator with high performance. However, the actuators also exhibit significant nonlinearities, which make them di...
Comparative Study
Soft robotics. 2018 Apr;5(2):190-203. DOI:10.1089/soro.2017.0023 2018
A Soft Tube-Climbing Robot [0.03%]
一种软体管爬行机器人
Mohit S Verma,Alar Ainla,Dian Yang et al.
Mohit S Verma et al.
This article demonstrates a pneumatically actuated soft robot capable of navigating the inside of a tube. This robot was built using buckling pneumatic actuators (vacuum-actuated muscle-inspired pneumatic structures, or VAMPs). The tube cli...
Agostino Stilli,Helge A Wurdemann,Kaspar Althoefer
Agostino Stilli
The recent decade has seen an astounding increase of interest and advancement in a new field of robotics, aimed at creating structures specifically for the safe interaction with humans. Softness, flexibility, and variable stiffness in robot...
Design and Fabrication of Soft Morphing Ray Propulsor: Undulator and Oscillator [0.03%]
一种软变形仿生射线推进器：波动和振动式射线的制备与设计
Hyung-Soo Kim,Jang-Yeob Lee,Won-Shik Chu et al.
Hyung-Soo Kim et al.
A soft morphing ray propulsor capable of generating an undulating motion in its pectoral fins was designed and fabricated. The propulsor used shape memory alloy for actuation, and the body was made with soft polymers. To determine the effec...