Abstract 3D printing will revolutionize the manufacturing industry. Significant advances in
computer aided design, additive manufacturing and materials science have opened up the …

Tunable rigidity materials have potentially widespread implications in robotic technologies.
They enable morphological shape change while maintaining structural strength, and can …

In this article, we have proposed a novel robotic finger design principle aimed to address
two challenges in soft pneumatic grippers—the controllability of the stiffness and the …

Highly flexible and environmentally adaptive soft robots have received considerable
attention. There remains a demand for soft robots to realize the stiffness modulation and …

Despite the increasing popularity of soft robotic research, the application of soft robots is
hindered by their limited ability to change compliance and acquire force and position …

The main objective of this paper is to introduce a 4D printing method to program shape
memory polymers (SMPs) during fabrication process. Fused deposition modeling (FDM) as …

Compared to traditional rigid robots, soft robots, primarily made of deformable, or less rigid
materials, have good adaptability, conformability and safety in interacting with the …

Compared with traditional additive manufacturing technology (3D printing), 4D printing
technology (four-dimensional printing) increases the time dimension. The structure prepared …

Implementation of exoskeletons could be one of the solutions to augment human capacity
towards reducing the large number of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) in …

In this study, a soft robotic finger with variable stiffness and tunable bending shape capability
is proposed. The finger employs shape memory polymers (SMPs) as the variable stiffness …