The inspection, maintenance, and repair of pipeline and tunnel infrastructure have motivated
the increasing research in the development of suitable robots with high flexibility, good …

Pipe inspection and maintenance are necessary to prevent economic and casualty losses
due to leakage of fluids from damaged pipes. In-pipe soft robots made of highly deformable …

A pneumatic large intestine-like soft robot with McKibben muscles is designed based on
traveling wave motion. The robot consists of four sections, and each section is controlled by …

To advance the design space of electrically‐driven soft actuators, a flexible, architected soft
robotic actuator is presented for motor‐driven extensional motion. The actuator comprises a …

Earthworm-like peristaltic locomotion has been implemented in> 50 robots, with many
potential applications in otherwise inaccessible terrain. Design guidelines for peristaltic …

Pipe inspection is of great importance from both safety and cost perspectives. Despite
extensive research, in-pipe robots with multi-locomotion capability have not been fully …

Traditional rigid-body in-pipe robots usually have complex and heavy structures with limited
flexibility and adaptability. Although soft in-pipe robots have great improvements in flexibility …

Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are the most widely employed flexible actuator in soft
robots. The twisting pneumatic artificial muscles (TPAMs) are the PAMs that can generate …

Mechanical metamaterials with negative stiffness (NS) effects are able to dissipate
mechanical energy repeatedly according to the “snap-back” strategy. Nevertheless, the …

This article presents the development of a novel tensegrity-based robot, TICBot, which is
capable of crawling in tubular environments. Based on the concept of tensegrity, a …