Magnetic soft robots: Design, actuation, and function

H Wang, Z Zhu, H Jin, R Wei, L Bi, W Zhang - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by advances in soft material science, magnetic soft robots have recently attracted
significant attention owing to their remarkable reprogramming deformations under magnetic …

Towards high performance and durable soft tactile actuators

MWM Tan, H Wang, D Gao, P Huang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft actuators are gaining significant attention due to their ability to provide realistic tactile
sensations in various applications. However, their soft nature makes them vulnerable to …

An adaptive and space-energy efficiency vibration absorber system using a self-sensing and tunable magnetorheological elastomer

Z Zhu, Z Wang, K Dai, X Wang, H Zhang, W Zhang - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Vibration monitoring and buffering is an important technical task in many industrial fields,
such as bridges, machine tools and other specific applications. Recently, a magneto …

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 …, 2023 - 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 …

A Self‐powered Triboelectric Coral‐Like Sensor Integrated Buoy for Irregular and Ultra‐Low Frequency Ocean Wave Monitoring

X Wang, J Liu, S Wang, J Zheng, T Guan… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The design of efficient ocean wave sensors for monitoring the marine environment and
revealing dynamic changes has been a major challenge. In this study, a self‐powered bionic …

A soft reconfigurable circulator enabled by magnetic liquid metal droplet for multifunctional control of soft robots

Y Xu, J Zhu, H Chen, H Yong, Z Wu - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated control circuits with multiple computation functions are essential for soft robots to
achieve diverse complex real tasks. However, designing compliant yet simple circuits to …

Soft electromagnetic motor and soft magnetic sensors for synchronous rotary motion

ND Kohls, R Balak, BP Ruddy, YC Mazumdar - Soft Robotics, 2023 - liebertpub.com
To create fully-soft robots, fully-soft actuators are needed. Currently, soft rotary actuator
topologies described in the literature exhibit low rotational speeds, which limit their …

Bistable valves for MR fluid-based soft robotic actuation systems

R Balak, YC Mazumdar - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetorheological (MR) fluids have unique characteristics that make them well-suited for
soft robotic actuation systems. Two particularly interesting applications are bistable valves …

Liquid metal coil

J Ye, ZR Xing, JY Gao, J Liu - Materials Today Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Metal coils are typically used as motors, inductors, transformers, and loop antennas, which
are essential and ubiquitous elements in electronics. With the improvement of living …

An electromagnetic soft robot that carries its own magnet

WR Johnson, SJ Woodman… - 2022 IEEE 5th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing magnetically actuated soft robots require an external magnetic field to generate
motion, limiting them to carefully controlled laboratory settings. Here, we introduce an …