The need for building robots with soft materials emerged recently from considerations of the
limitations of service robots in negotiating natural environments, from observation of the role …

Binary mixtures of liquid metal (LM) or low‐melting‐point alloy (LMPA) in an elastomeric or
fluidic carrier medium can exhibit unique combinations of electrical, thermal, and …

软体机器人由软材料加工而成, 自身可连续变形, 与刚性机器人相比具有更高的柔顺性,
安全性和适应性, 在人机交互, 复杂易碎品抓持和狭小空间作业等方面具有不可比拟的优势 …

Stiffness tunable advanced materials have demonstrated their superiority and versatility in
diverse areas, while the global pursuit of reversible, intelligent, and fast response for …

Endowed with the expected visions for future surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has
become one of the most rapid developing areas in modern surgery. Soft robotics, which …

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 …

Magneto-actuated soft robots have broad prospects for biomedical applications, such as cell
manipulation, drug delivery, and noninvasive intervention. However, the single function and …

For adhering to three-dimensional (3D) surfaces or objects, current adhesion systems are
limited by a fundamental trade-off between 3D surface conformability and high adhesion …

In the medical field and in soft robotics, flexible devices are required for safe human
interaction, while rigid structures are required to withstand the force application and …