The challenge of effectively interacting with the environment is a huge obstacle in robotics
that needs more attention and innovation. Contact missions, in particular, provide inherent …

Soft robots show compliance and have infinite degrees of freedom. Thanks to these
properties, such robots can be leveraged for surgery, rehabilitation, biomimetics …

Elastomer-based soft-continuum robots with an extensible backbone exhibit high flexibility.
These manipulators might show nonlinear kinematic behaviors due to, for example, the …

Soft robots distinguish themselves from traditional robots by embracing flexible kinematics.
Because of their recent emergence, there exist numerous uncharted territories, including …

Even though a variety of methods have been proposed in the literature, efficient and
effective latent-space control (ie, control in a learned low-dimensional space) of physical …

Robotic skins with embedded sensors and actuators are designed to wrap around soft,
passive objects to control those objects from their surface. Prior state estimation and control …

Reliable proprioception and feedback from soft sensors are crucial for enabling soft robots to
function intelligently in real-world environments. Nevertheless, soft sensors are fragile and …

Path tracking of continuum robots is a fundamental and crucial problem across various
applications. In this article, we address this problem by focussing on three aspects. Firstly …

Soft robots are more human-friendly than rigid-bodied robots. This is due to their soft nature
that does not harm humans while interacting. This work provides the developments and …

Soft robots exhibit complex nonlinear dynamics with large degrees of freedom, making their
modelling and control challenging. Typically, reduced-order models in time or space are …