Interest in emulating the properties of biological muscles that allow for fast adaptability and
control in unstructured environments has motivated researchers to develop new soft …

In the past few years, vacuum-powered soft actuators have shown strong potential due to
their promising mechanical performance (ie, fail-safe, fast response, compactness …

Metallic tools such as graspers, forceps, spatulas, and clamps have been used in proximity
to delicate neurological tissue and the risk of damage to this tissue is a primary concern for …

The majority of soft pneumatic actuators for rehabilitation exercises have been designed for
adult users. Specifically, there is a paucity of soft rehabilitative devices designed for infants …

Soft pneumatic artificial muscles are increasingly popular in the field of soft robotics due to
their light-weight, complex motions, and safe interfacing with humans. In this paper, we …

Negative-pressure artificial muscles based on internal support and flexible skin provide a
way to develop high-performance artificial muscles. However, the random and disordered …

Ensuring the high adaptability of a soft gripper while maintain a high load capacity is greatly
needed, yet still challenging now. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a stiffness …

Soft robotics is a branch of robotics that focuses on technologies with physical features that
are like those of live biological creatures. Additionally, they have many details that are hard …

Origami-inspired soft pneumatic actuators are gaining attention thanks to their stability and
reinforcement through force distribution due to their design achieving linear, radial, or …

In the theoretical study of vacuum-powered artificial muscles, the inhomogeneous and
nonlinear deformation properties of the skin have not been fully investigated, and the effect …