Herein, recent advances, current limitations, and open challenges in the design, modeling,
and control of continuum robots are discussed. Thanks to their lean bodies, these robots …

Purpose of review In this review, we briefly summarize the numerical methods commonly
used for the nonlinear dynamic analysis of soft robotic systems. The underlying mechanical …

Tendon actuation is one of the most prominent actuation principles for continuum robots. To
date, a wide variety of modelling approaches has been derived to describe the deformations …

The cable‐driven continuum robot (CDCR) is a highly significant soft robot that exhibits a
lightweight structure, intrinsic safety properties, and a considerable degree of freedom; …

In-situ aeroengine maintenance works are highly beneficial as it can significantly reduce the
current maintenance cycle which is extensive and costly due to the disassembly requirement …

Tensegrity structures have attracted garnered significant attention in soft robotics. However,
current modeling methods lack a unified framework to address forward and inverse solutions …

With the rapid development of social intelligence, flexible manipulator has become a typical
representative of the intelligent era. However, due to the strong nonlinearity brought about …

Compared with traditional industrial robots, a hyper-redundant manipulator (HRM) has
better flexibility, especially in obstacle avoidance, narrow restricted space crossing and fault …

Continuum robots (CRs) hold great potential for many medical and industrial applications
where compliant interaction within the potentially confined environment is required …

Tendon-driven continuum robots have increasingly attracted attention these years.
Conventionally, such kind of robots utilizes elastic central backbones to hold the structure …