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 …

Over the past decade, soft actuators have received enormous interest for potential
applications in artificial muscles, soft grippers, wearable devices, minimally invasive surgery …

Over the past decade, soft robot research has expanded to diverse fields, including
biomedicine, bionics, service robots, human–robot interaction, and artificial intelligence …

Soft grippers with good passive compliance can effectively adapt to the shape of a target
object and have better safe grasping performance than rigid grippers. However, for soft or …

As a friendly tool, the soft gripper can be used directly for grasping vulnerable objects in
underwater environments. These tasks are generally performed by teleoperation based on …

Soft actuators with a function of variable stiffness are beneficial to the improvement of the
adaptability of robots, expanding the application areas and environments. We propose a …

Soft optical sensing strategies are rapidly developing for soft robotic systems as a means to
increase the controllability of soft compliant robots. In this paper, we present a roughness …

Advances in material sciences, control algorithms, and manufacturing techniques have
facilitated rapid progress in soft grippers, propelling their adoption in various fields. In this …

Despite the exponentially expanding capabilities of robotic systems with the introduction of
soft robotics, the lack of practical considerations in designing and integrating soft robotic …

In many interaction and manipulation tasks, robots need to estimate the state or properties,
such as extrinsic contact states (ECSs), on the object being manipulated. Tactile sensing is …