In recent years, functional fluidic and gas electrohydrodynamic (EHD) pumps have received
considerable attention due to their remarkable features, such as simple structure, quiet …

In the last decades, many fluidic actuators have been developed for numerous applications,
eg, artificial muscles (Wang and Qu, 2016), soft spatial finger (Mao et al., 2020a, 2020c), soft …

Dynamic response characteristics of solenoid valves directly determined their performances.
Among numerous parameters, the influence of magnetic isolation ring (MIR) on solenoid …

Soft robotics is a breakthrough technology to support human–robot interactions. The soft
structure of a soft robot can increase safety during human and robot interactions. One of the …

Developing soft actuators has emerged as one of the most promising areas in robotics, with
a growing demand for tunable lenses driven by the rapid advancements in intelligent mobile …

In this paper, the design, fabrication and evaluation of a novel piezoelectric MEMS varifocal
liquid lens are presented. The device consists of a thin film PZT actuator integrated with a …

Physical interfaces that change appearance by controlling transparency have attracted
attention for wide applicability. However, many existing methods are limited to planar …

Soft robotics has gained much attention due to its simplicity and ease of control. Potential
technology in soft robotics includes electrohydrodynamic pumps (EHD) and dielectric …

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DEAs are energy efficient,[22] compact,[23][24] and operate silently.[21][25] Currently,
electro-mechanical types of soft actuators include soft pneumatic actuators,[26]–[28] …