This paper focuses on the recent development of soft pneumatic actuators for soft robotics
over the past few years, concentrating on the following four categories: control systems …

Developing artificial muscles that can replace biological muscles to accomplish various
tasks is what we have long been aiming for. Recent advances in flexible materials and 3D …

Soft actuators and their sensors have always been separate entities with two distinct roles.
The omnidirectional compliance of soft robots thus means that multiple sensors have to be …

This paper proposes a flexible strain sensor based on the principle of resistance sensing to
estimate the curvature information of the soft pneumatic gripper. The proposed sensor …

Empowering soft robots with the ability to perceive will greatly improve human-machine
interaction, enabling autonomous robotic systems. However, integrating additional sensing …

This paper proposes a method for a soft pneumatic actuator to measure its displacement
without external position sensors, which are usually difficult for washing and sterilization …

Actuators using soft materials feature a large number of degrees of freedom. This
tremendous flexibility allows a soft actuator to passively adapt its shape to the objects under …

In order to study the influence of the cavity inclination angle bending performance of
pneumatic soft actuators, two kinds of soft actuators were designed, one with a five-degree …

Soft robots present an avenue toward unprecedented societal acceptance, utility in
populated environments, and direct interaction with humans. However, the compliance that …

Sensing the angle of bending of a soft robotic finger is valuable in many applications but it is
a non-trivial task. In this paper, a simple but effective sensing approach based on variable …