With the maturity of surgical robotic systems based on traditional rigid-link principles, the rate of progress slowed as limits of size and controllable degrees of freedom were reached …
Z Gong, X Fang, X Chen, J Cheng… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Collecting in shallow water (water depth:~ 30 m) is an emerging field that requires robotics for replacing human divers. Soft robots have several promising features (eg, safe interaction …
X Chen, X Zhang, Y Huang, L Cao… - Journal of Field …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft manipulator is a kind of special manipulator that uses soft material or flexible structure to perform manipulation task under the specific drive mode inspired by the soft tissue. It is …
H Jiang, Z Wang, Y Jin, X Chen, P Li… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Performing daily interaction tasks such as opening doors and pulling drawers in unstructured environments is a challenging problem for robots. The emergence of soft …
JM Bern, Y Schnider, P Banzet… - 2020 3rd IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robots are inherently safe and comply readily to their environment. They are therefore exciting for applications like search and rescue or medicine, which involve a high degree of …
Soft-bodied robots, due to their intrinsic compliance, have shown great potential for operating within unstructured environment and interacting with unknown objects. This letter …
Inspired by nature, soft robots promise disruptive advances in robotics. Soft robots are naturally compliant and exhibit nonlinear behavior, which makes their study challenging. No …
Z Chen, M Bernabei, V Mainardi, X Ren, G Ciuti… - Soft …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Modular soft robots (MSRs) exhibit greater potential for sophisticated tasks compared with single-module robots. However, the modular structure incurs the complexity of accurate …