Soft actuators for real-world applications

M Li, A Pal, A Aghakhani, A Pena-Francesch… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Inspired by physically adaptive, agile, reconfigurable and multifunctional soft-bodied
animals and human muscles, soft actuators have been developed for a variety of …

A review on high‐frequency dielectric elastomer actuators: materials, dynamics, and applications

C Tang, B Du, S Jiang, Z Wang, XJ Liu… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Soft Electromagnetic Artificial Muscles Using High‐Density Liquid‐Metal Solenoid Coils and Bistable Stretchable Magnetic Housings

G Shin, YJ Choi, BJ Jeon, I Choi… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soft electromagnetic artificial muscles (SEAMs) that use electric currents are reported as
their power sources. The proposed actuator consists of fully soft components: microfluidic …

Low‐voltage soft actuators for interactive human–machine interfaces

S Chen, MWM Tan, X Gong… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft electrical actuators driven by low voltages are promising for interactive human–machine
interfaces (iHMI) applications including executing orders to complete various tasks and …

Tacsac: A wearable haptic device with capacitive touch-sensing capability for tactile display

O Ozioko, W Navaraj, M Hersh, R Dahiya - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a dual-function wearable device (Tacsac) with capacitive tactile sensing
and integrated tactile feedback capability to enable communication among deafblind …

Wearable actuators: An overview

Y Chen, Y Yang, M Li, E Chen, W Mu, R Fisher, R Yin - Textiles, 2021 - mdpi.com
The booming wearable market and recent advances in material science has led to the rapid
development of the various wearable sensors, actuators, and devices that can be worn …

Development of electrostatic microactuators: 5-year progress in modeling, design, and applications

I Morkvenaite-Vilkonciene, V Bucinskas… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The implementation of electrostatic microactuators is one of the most popular technical
solutions in the field of micropositioning due to their versatility and variety of possible …

Digital Light Processing 3D‐Printed Multilayer Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Vibrotactile Device

P Huang, H Fu, MWM Tan, Y Jiang… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have emerged as promising components in the field of
soft robotics. Multilayer DEAs can enhance the output performance compared to single …

Liquid crystal elastomers in soft micro electromechanical systems: a review of recent developments

E Asgari, A Robichaud, PV Cicek, A Shih - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a class of electroactive polymers (EAPs) that have
attracted significant attention in the microelectromechanical system (MEMS) community due …

A study on improved methods in Micro-electromechanical systems technology

JA Khatokar, N Vinay, AS Bale, MA Nayana… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
This current review describes the various micro fabrication techniques, the reliability view of
various processes and the various problems that are caused during these processes. This …