Bioinspired Multifunctional Mechanoreception of Soft–Rigid Hybrid Actuator Fingers

S Gong, Q Ding, J Wu, WB Li, XY Guo… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is highly desired yet challenging to construct soft robots resembling the dexterous motor
skills and powerful tactile sensations of human hands. Herein, a bioinspired design to create …

Multimodal sensors enabled autonomous soft robotic system with self-adaptive manipulation

T Wang, T Jin, W Lin, Y Lin, H Liu, T Yue, Y Tian, L Li… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Human hands are amazingly skilled at recognizing and handling objects of different sizes
and shapes. To date, soft robots rarely demonstrate autonomy equivalent to that of humans …

Soft modularized robotic arm for safe human–robot interaction based on visual and proprioceptive feedback

S Ku, BH Song, T Park, Y Lee… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study proposes a modularized soft robotic arm with integrated sensing of human
touches for physical human–robot interactions. The proposed robotic arm is constructed by …

Modular bioinspired hand with multijoint rigid-soft finger possessing proprioception

R Zhen, L Jiang, H Li, B Yang - Soft Robotics, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Soft robot hands have the advantage of remarkable adaptability for grasping. Especially for
the soft and fragile objects, soft fingers had presented their much excellent potential …

Applications of a vacuum-actuated multi-material hybrid soft gripper: lessons learnt from RoboSoft manipulation challenge

S Dontu, E Kanhere, T Stalin… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Soft grippers are garnering increasing attention for their adeptness in conforming to diverse
objects, particularly delicate items, without warranting precise force control. This attribute …

Rigid skeleton enhanced dexterous soft finger possessing proprioception

R Zhen, L Jiang - 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a humanoid soft robotics finger design with rigid skeletons and
proprioceptive sensors. This 4-DOFs dexterous finger has soft joints and rigid phalanxes …

Soft humanoid hands with large grasping force enabled by flexible hybrid pneumatic actuators

X Liu, Y Zhao, D Geng, S Chen, X Tan, C Cao - Soft Robotics, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Soft grippers and actuators have attracted increasing attention due to safer and more
adaptable human–machine and environment–machine interactions than their rigid …

Bionic Soft Fingers with Hybrid Variable Stiffness Mechanisms for Multimode Grasping

X Wang, T Zhang, H Yu, Z Wen, L Fang… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel Bionic Soft Finger (BSF) that aims to overcome the limitations of
conventional rigid manipulators in terms of adaptability and safety, as well as the challenges …

A Biomimetic Soft‐Rigid Hybrid Finger with Autonomous Lateral Stiffness Enhancement

P Zhou, N Zhang, G Gu - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The application of soft robotics improves the compliance of robotic fingers, which, however,
usually loses sufficient stiffness. Here, a biomimetic soft‐rigid hybrid (BSH) finger that can …

Mechanoreceptor Inspired Electronic Skin for Multi‐Modal Tactile Information Decoding

Y Gao, B Zhang, Y Liu, K Yao, X Huang… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multimodal force identification by electronic skin (E‐skin) provides comprehensive and
precise tactile information that can enhance elaborated functions of fine tactile …