Conventional industrial robots with the rigid actuation technology have made great progress
for humans in the fields of automation assembly and manufacturing. With an increasing …

Soft robotics is an emerging field of robotics that focuses on the design of soft machines and
devices with effective human-machine interaction, high conformity, and environmental …

This paper proposes a novel hybrid piezo-dielectric (PD) wind energy harvester, to efficiently
harvest the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) energy from low-speed wind. The hybrid PD …

Mechanical energy harvesters are needed for diverse applications, including self-powered
wireless sensors, structural and human health monitoring systems, and the extraction of …

Dielectric elastomer generator systems (DEGSs) are a class of electrostatic soft‐transducers
capable of converting oscillating mechanical power from different sources into usable …

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

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) as a typical class of electroactive polymers have been
developed rapidly in the last two decades due to their advantages such as large strain, high …

This contribution demonstrates the fabrication process of dielectric elastomer transducers
(DETs). DETs are stretchable capacitors consisting of an elastomeric dielectric membrane …

A novel wind energy harvester is proposed and studied in this paper. The system contains a
vibro-impact (VI) dielectric elastomer generator (DEG) that can convert vibrational energy …

We review recent progress in miniaturized dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs), sensors,
and energy harvesters. We focus primarily on configurations where the large strain, high …