Soft crawling robots have attracted great attention due to their anticipated effective
interactions with humans and uncertain environments, as well as their potential capabilities …

In the past decade, the development of theory has deeply revealed the electromechanical
coupling deformation mechanism of dielectric elastomer (DE). Many theoretical predictions …

Electroadhesion (EA) is an electrically controllable adhesion mechanism that has been
studied and used in fields including active adhesion and attachment, robotic gripping …

Locomotion is an important ability of animals and bioinspired mobile robots. It is, however,
challenging for current soft mobile robots to achieve multimodal locomotion within a simple …

Abstract Purpose of Review Soft robotics enables unprecedented capabilities for mobile
robots that could not be previously achieved using rigid mechanisms. This article serves as …

In nature, animals reduce their cost of transport by utilising elastic energy recovery.
Emerging soft robotic technologies such as dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) offer an …

In nature, inchworms can move freely on uneven terrains where conventional wheeled or
tracked robots cannot. Emerging soft actuation technologies such as dielectric elastomer …

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are an emerging soft actuation technology that have
advantages in large actuation strain, inherent compliance and low cost. Resonant actuation …

Soft robotics is a fast growing field of engineering where there are significant opportunities to
realize new forms of actuation and sensing. However, there is also a challenge to translate …

Featured Application The findings reported in this paper will enable the design of cost-
effective electroadhesion (EA)-based robotic end effectors with rapid release capabilities …