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Kunal Singh, Ajit Khosla, Shilpa Gupta • ECS Sensors Plus
(2023)
Soft robotics, offering precise actions in complex environments, stands at the brink of transformative advancements across diverse fields. To realize this potential, the field must address five key challenges: creation of soft power and con...
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DOI: 10.1149/2754-2726/ad08d6
Jun Shintake, Vito Cacucciolo, Dario Floreano, Herbert R. Shea • Advanced Materials
(2018)
Advances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented, covering different material sets, physical principles, ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201707035
Jiaqing Xiong, Jian Chen, Pooi See Lee • Advanced Materials
(2020)
Soft robotics inspired by the movement of living organisms, with excellent adaptability and accuracy for accomplishing tasks, are highly desirable for efficient operations and safe interactions with human. With the emerging wearable electro...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202002640
PMC: 11468729
Robert F. Shepherd, Filip Ilievski, Wonjae Choi, Stephen A. Morin et al. • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2011)
This manuscript describes a unique class of locomotive robot: A soft robot, composed exclusively of soft materials (elastomeric polymers), which is inspired by animals (e.g., squid, starfish, worms) that do not have hard internal skeletons....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1116564108
PMC: 3251082
Iryna S. Protsak, Yevhenii M. Morozov • Gels
(2025)
This review summarizes the fundamental concepts, recent advancements, and emerging trends in the field of stimuli-responsive hydrogels. While numerous reviews exist on this topic, the field continues to evolve dynamically, and certain resea...
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DOI: 10.3390/gels11010030
Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Oliver Eiberger, Markus Grebenstein, Sami Haddadin et al. • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
(2008)
In this article, we gave an overview on the DLR activities related to two approaches for the realization of soft robotics: actively torque-controlled LWRs and VSA. On the basis of our experience with torque-controlled robots, we presented a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2008.927979
Cecilia Laschi, Matteo Cianchetti • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
(2014)
The remarkable advances of robotics in the last 50 years, which represent an incredible wealth of knowledge, are based on the fundamental assumption that robots are chains of rigid links. The use of soft materials in robotics, driven not on...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2014.00003
PMC: 4090912
Cecilia Laschi, Barbara Mazzolai, Matteo Cianchetti • Science Robotics
(2016)
The proliferation of soft robotics research worldwide has brought substantial achievements in terms of principles, models, technologies, techniques, and prototypes of soft robots. Such achievements are reviewed here in terms of the abilitie...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aah3690
George M. Whitesides • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
(2018)
This description of "soft robotics" is not intended to be a conventional review, in the sense of a comprehensive technical summary of a developing field. Rather, its objective is to describe soft robotics as a new field-one that offers oppo...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201800907
Lorenzo Bonetti, Daniele Natali, Stefano Pandini, Massimo Messori et al. • Materials & Design
(2024)
This paper introduces a novel approach to 4D printing tailored structures with reversible two-way shape-memory effect (SME) through material extrusion technology. To this aim, methacrylated poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) was synthesized and eva...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112725
Hyunsoo Kim, Manmatha Mahato, Hunpyo Ju, Ryanda Enggar Anugrah Ardhi et al. • Advanced Science
(2026)
ABSTRACT Photothermal shape memory alloys (SMAs) offer a promising pathway toward wireless soft robotic systems, yet their practical implementation remains limited by reliance on heterogeneous coatings and multistep processing to achieve su...
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DOI: 10.1002/advs.74930
Sangbae Kim, Cecilia Laschi, Barry Andrew Trimmer • Trends in biotechnology
(2013)
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Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Kyoko Nakamura, Kazuto Sasai, Iori Tani et al. • Entropy
(2026)
Artificial intelligence is typically formulated as an information-processing system composed of artificial neurons, where computation is understood as recursive operations connecting inputs and outputs. However, real neural systems are mate...
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DOI: 10.3390/e28050498
Phillip Won, Seung Hwan Ko, Carmel Majidi, Adam W. Feinberg et al. • Actuators
(2020)
Living systems have evolved to survive in a wide range of environments and safely interact with other objects and organisms. Thus, living systems have been the source of inspiration for many researchers looking to apply their mechanics and ...
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DOI: 10.3390/act9040096
Tim Giffney, Mengying Xie, Aaron Yong, Andrew Wong et al. • Robotics
(2016)
The excellent compliance and large range of motion of soft actuators controlled by fluid pressure has lead to strong interest in applying devices of this type for biomimetic and human-robot interaction applications. However, in contrast to ...
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DOI: 10.3390/robotics5010007