In the past few years, vacuum-powered soft actuators have shown strong potential due to
their promising mechanical performance (ie, fail-safe, fast response, compactness …

Soft actuators are essential to soft robots and can also be used with rigid-bodied robots. This
paper is focused on methods for improving the applicability of origami-inspired soft …

Soft pneumatic artificial muscles are increasingly popular in the field of soft robotics due to
their light-weight, complex motions, and safe interfacing with humans. In this paper, we …

Soft pneumatic artificial muscles are a well actuation scheme in soft robotics due to its key
features for robotic machines being safe, lightweight, and conformable. In this work, we …

A passively stretchable vacuum-powered artificial muscle (VPAM) is proposed in this work
that extends the deformation mode of the existing VPAM, allowing it to have passively …

This paper systematically investigates a soft-rigid hybrid pneumatic actuator (SRHPA), which
consists of a rigid-foldable twisting skeleton capable of a large range of helical motion and a …

Inertial kinetics and kinematics have substantial influences on human biomechanical
function. A new algorithm for Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based motion tracking is …

Pneumatic air muscles (PAMs) are lightweight, contractile, or extensional devices that were
first developed in the 1950s under the name of McKibben Artificial Muscles for artificial limbs …

Soft modular robotics is a research field that pursues body flexibility while maintaining
reconfigurability by employing flowable or soft materials as the main constituent materials of …

Repetitive Facilitation Exercise (RFE) is known as an effective rehabilitation method that can
elicit brain plasticity. In our previous study, we developed a hemiplegic upper limb …