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Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics.
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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.About:
This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 1604 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soft robotics & Robotic paradigms.read more
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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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Advances in engineering hydrogels
TL;DR: The advances in making hydrogels with improved mechanical strength and greater flexibility for use in a wide range of applications are reviewed, foreseeing opportunities in the further development of more sophisticated fabrication methods that allow better-controlled hydrogel architecture across multiple length scales.
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Stretchable and Soft Electronics using Liquid Metals.
TL;DR: The use of liquid metals based on gallium for soft and stretchable electronics is discussed, and these metals can be used actively to form memory devices, sensors, and diodes that are completely built from soft materials.
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Soft Robotic Grippers.
TL;DR: A critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented, covering different material sets, physical principles, and device architectures, and improved materials, processing methods, and sensing play an important role in future research.
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Continuum Robots for Medical Applications: A Survey
TL;DR: The state of the art in continuum robot manipulators and systems intended for application to interventional medicine are described, and relevant research in design, modeling, control, and sensing for continuum manipulators are discussed.
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TL;DR: Mechanically active “organ-on-a-chip” microdevices that reconstitute tissue-tissue interfaces critical to organ function may expand the capabilities of cell culture models and provide low-cost alternatives to animal and clinical studies for drug screening and toxicology applications.
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Multigait soft robot
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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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Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics
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