Soft robotics is a rapidly evolving field where robots are fabricated using highly deformable
materials and usually follow a bioinspired design. Their high dexterity and safety make them …

Textiles hold great promise as a soft yet durable material for building comfortable robotic
wearables and assistive devices at low cost. Nevertheless, the development of smart …

Soft robotic actuation concepts meet and sometimes exceed their natural counterparts. In
contrast, artificially recreating natural levels of autonomy is still an unmet challenge. Here …

Despite exciting developments in soft robotics, fully autonomous systems remain elusive.
Fluidic circuits could enable fully embedded control of soft robots without using electronics …

Soft robots typically involve manual assembly of core hardware components like actuators,
sensors, and controllers. This increases fabrication time and reduces consistency, especially …

The next robotics frontier will be led by biohybrids. Capable biohybrid robots require
microfluidics to sustain, improve, and scale the architectural complexity of their core …

Magnetorheological (MR) fluids, which stiffen in the presence of magnetic fields, have been
shown to be an effective means for controlling the inflation of soft actuators. However, past …

Soft robots have been developed for a variety of applications including gripping, locomotion,
wearables and medical devices. For the majority of soft robots, actuation is performed using …

Haptic feedback offers a useful mode of communication in visually or auditorily noisy
environments. The adoption of haptic devices in our everyday lives, however, remains …

To achieve coordinated functions, fluidic soft robots typically rely on multiple input lines for
the independent inflation and deflation of each actuator. Fluidic actuators are controlled by …