Recent advances in soft robotics demonstrate the requirement of modular actuation to
enable the rapid replacement of actuators for maintenance and functionality extension …

Soft actuators hold great potential for applications in surgical operations, robotic
manipulation, and prosthetic devices. However, they are limited by their structures …

Soft actuators have shown great advantages in compliance and morphology matched for
manipulation of delicate objects and inspection in a confined space. There is an unmet need …

Conventional soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are made of soft materials that facilitate safe
interaction and adaptability. In positioning and loading tasks, however, SPAs demonstrate …

Pneumatic soft actuators are widely used in various applications. Recent years, pneumatic
origami actuators were studied intensively because of the advantages of high energy …

Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are versatile robotic components enabling diverse and
complex soft robot hardware design. However, due to inherent material characteristics …

Soft robots have long been attractive to robotic engineers due to their remarkable dexterity;
however, reports that standardize soft actuators into modularized off-shelf devices akin to …

Continued technological progress in robotic systems has led to more applications where
robots and humans operate in close proximity and even physical contact in some cases. Soft …

Origami is a rich source of inspiration for creating soft actuators with complex deformations.
However, implementing the re‐foldability of origami on soft actuators remains a significant …

Soft robotics are receiving more and more attentions by utilizing soft actuators to gain
inherent compliance and natural adaptions to environment. As the application realm of soft …