Soft, wearable robotics and haptics: Technologies, trends, and emerging applications

M Zhu, S Biswas, SI Dinulescu, N Kastor… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in the rapidly growing field of soft robotics highlight the potential for
innovations in wearable soft robotics to meet challenges and opportunities affecting …

A review of smart materials for the boost of soft actuators, soft sensors, and robotics applications

Y Hao, S Zhang, B Fang, F Sun, H Liu, H Li - Chinese Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
With the advance of smart material science, robotics is evolving from rigid robots to soft
robots. Compared to rigid robots, soft robots can safely interact with the environment, easily …

Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor films through the nanoconfinement effect

J Xu, S Wang, GJN Wang, C Zhu, S Luo, L Jin, X Gu… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Soft and conformable wearable electronics require stretchable semiconductors, but existing
ones typically sacrifice charge transport mobility to achieve stretchability. We explore a …

[HTML][HTML] Flexible sensors—from materials to applications

JC Costa, F Spina, P Lugoda, L Garcia-Garcia… - Technologies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Flexible sensors have the potential to be seamlessly applied to soft and irregularly shaped
surfaces such as the human skin or textile fabrics. This benefits conformability dependant …

Shielded soft force sensors

B Aksoy, Y Hao, G Grasso, KM Digumarti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Force and strain sensors made of soft materials enable robots to interact intelligently with
their surroundings. Capacitive sensing is widely adopted thanks to its low power …

Liquid-phase gallium–indium alloy electronics with microcontact printing

A Tabatabai, A Fassler, C Usiak, C Majidi - Langmuir, 2013 - ACS Publications
Liquid-phase electronic circuits are patterned on an elastomer substrate with a microcontact
printer. The printer head dips into a pool of a liquid-phase gallium–indium alloy, eg, eutectic …

Tactile sensing for minimally invasive surgery: Conventional methods and potential emerging tactile technologies

W Othman, ZHA Lai, C Abril… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As opposed to open surgery procedures, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) utilizes small skin
incisions to insert a camera and surgical instruments. MIS has numerous advantages such …

A helping hand: Soft orthosis with integrated optical strain sensors and EMG control

H Zhao, J Jalving, R Huang, R Knepper… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human fingers and hands are frequently injured because they are delicate, complex, and
used constantly. More than 3 million people in the United States suffer from hand or forearm …

Soft tactile sensing skins for robotics

P Roberts, M Zadan, C Majidi - Current Robotics Reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Soft electronic skins (E-skins) capable of tactile pressure
sensing have the potential to endow robotic systems with many of the same somatosensory …

Fabrication methods and applications of microstructured gallium based liquid metal alloys

MAH Khondoker, D Sameoto - Smart Materials and Structures, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This review contains a comparative study of reported fabrication techniques of gallium
based liquid metal alloys embedded in elastomers such as polydimethylsiloxane or other …