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Deformation in Soft-Matter Robotics: A Categorization and Quantitative Characterization
Liyu Wang,Fumiya Iida +1 more
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There has been an increasing interest in soft-robotics research in recent years, and this is reflected in a number of reviews of the topic from different perspectives, including design, fabrication, and control as well as sensors and actuators.Abstract:
There has been an increasing interest in soft-robotics research in recent years, and this is reflected in a number of reviews of the topic from different perspectives. For example, in what was probably the first review article using the term soft robotics, [1] focused on actuators, while [2] reviewed the topic by concentrating on fabrication techniques. Three more reviews addressed control [3], biomimetics [4], and materials [5], respectively. Furthermore, in the first issue of Soft Robotics, there are seven review articles from active researchers in the field. More recently, another review [6] and an edited book [7] have tried to cover a number of topics, including design, fabrication, and control as well as sensors and actuators. All of these efforts have helped draw attention to soft robotics and summarized some of the most recent studies.read more
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An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots
Michael Wehner,Michael Wehner,Ryan L. Truby,Ryan L. Truby,Daniel J. Fitzgerald,Daniel J. Fitzgerald,Bobak Mosadegh,Bobak Mosadegh,George M. Whitesides,George M. Whitesides,Jennifer A. Lewis,Jennifer A. Lewis,Robert J. Wood,Robert J. Wood +13 more
TL;DR: An untethered operation of a robot composed solely of soft materials that autonomously regulates fluid flow and, hence, catalytic decomposition of an on-board monopropellant fuel supply is reported.
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Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities.
TL;DR: The challenge ahead for soft robotics is to further develop the abilities for robots to grow, evolve, self-heal, develop, and biodegrade, which are the ways that robots can adapt their morphology to the environment.
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Biomedical applications of soft robotics
TL;DR: This Review investigates soft robots for biomedical applications, including soft tools for surgery, diagnosis and drug delivery, wearable and assistive devices, prostheses, artificial organs and tissue-mimicking active simulators for training and biomechanical studies.
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Fluid-driven origami-inspired artificial muscles
Shuguang Li,Shuguang Li,Shuguang Li,Daniel M. Vogt,Daniel M. Vogt,Daniela Rus,Robert J. Wood,Robert J. Wood +7 more
TL;DR: This architecture for fluidic artificial muscles with unprecedented performance-to-cost ratio is presented and opens the door to rapid design and low-cost fabrication of actuation systems for numerous applications at multiple scales, ranging from miniature medical devices to wearable robotic exoskeletons to large deployable structures for space exploration.
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Biohybrid actuators for robotics: A review of devices actuated by living cells.
Leonardo Ricotti,Barry A. Trimmer,Adam W. Feinberg,Ritu Raman,Kevin Kit Parker,Rashid Bashir,Metin Sitti,Sylvain Martel,Paolo Dario,Arianna Menciassi +9 more
TL;DR: A survey of important advances in this biohybrid actuation paradigm is provided and it is suggested that the performance of living cells and tissues and directly interfacing them with artificial components should be possible to exploit the intricacy and metabolic efficiency of biological actuation within artificial machines.
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Design, fabrication and control of soft robots
Daniela Rus,Michael T. Tolley +1 more
TL;DR: This Review discusses recent developments in the emerging field of soft robotics, and explores the design and control of soft-bodied robots composed of compliant materials.
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Polymer Data Handbook
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present key data on approximately 200 important polymers currently in industrial use or under study in industrial or academic research, including platics, artificial fibers, rubber, cellulose, and many other materials.
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Multigait soft robot
Robert F. Shepherd,Filip Ilievski,Wonjae Choi,Stephen A. Morin,Adam A. Stokes,Aaron D. Mazzeo,Xin Chen,Michael Wang,George M. Whitesides +8 more
TL;DR: This manuscript describes a unique class of locomotive robot, composed exclusively of soft materials (elastomeric polymers), which is inspired by animals that do not have hard internal skeletons, and illustrates an advantage of soft robotics.
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Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics.
TL;DR: Emerging soft-bodied robotic systems are reviewed to endow robots with new, bioinspired capabilities that permit adaptive, flexible interactions with unpredictable environments and to reduce the mechanical and algorithmic complexity involved in robot design.
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Soft robotics for chemists
Filip Ilievski,Aaron D. Mazzeo,Robert F. Shepherd,Xin Chen,George M. Whitesides,George M. Whitesides +5 more
TL;DR: This work aims to expand the methods and materials of chemistry and soft-materials science into applications in fully soft robots, and permits solutions of problems in manipulation, locomotion, and navigation, that are different from those used in conventional hard robotics.