Recent progress in advanced tactile sensing technologies for soft grippers

J Qu, B Mao, Z Li, Y Xu, K Zhou, X Cao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tactile sensing technology is crucial for soft grippers. Soft grippers equipped with intelligent
tactile sensing systems based on various sensors can interact safely with the unstructured …

Soft robotic grippers

J Shintake, V Cacucciolo, D Floreano… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid
progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented …

[PDF][PDF] 软体机器人: 结构, 驱动, 传感与控制

王田苗, 郝雨飞, 杨兴帮, 文力 - 机械工程学报, 2017 - scholar.archive.org
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 …

Processing of self‐healing polymers for soft robotics

E Roels, S Terryn, F Iida, AW Bosman… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots are, due to their softness, inherently safe and adapt well to unstructured
environments. However, they are prone to various damage types. Self‐healing polymers …

Soft grippers for automatic crop harvesting: A review

E Navas, R Fernández, D Sepúlveda, M Armada… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agriculture 4.0 is transforming farming livelihoods thanks to the development and adoption
of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and robotics, traditionally …

[HTML][HTML] Revolutionizing manufacturing: A review of 4D printing materials, stimuli, and cutting-edge applications

A Mahmood, T Akram, C Shenggui, H Chen - Composites Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The concept of four-dimensional (4D) printing emerged from the addition of the time
dimension into the more established additive manufacturing (AM) methods, namely 3D …

Leveraging elastic instabilities for amplified performance: Spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots

Y Tang, Y Chi, J Sun, TH Huang, OH Maghsoudi… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Soft machines typically exhibit slow locomotion speed and low manipulation strength
because of intrinsic limitations of soft materials. Here, we present a generic design principle …

Soft manipulators and grippers: A review

J Hughes, U Culha, F Giardina, F Guenther… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Soft robotics is a growing area of research which utilizes the compliance and adaptability of
soft structures to develop highly adaptive robotics for soft interactions. One area in which soft …

High-force soft printable pneumatics for soft robotic applications

HK Yap, HY Ng, CH Yeow - Soft Robotics, 2016 - liebertpub.com
This work presents a novel technique for direct 3D printing of soft pneumatic actuators using
3D printers based on fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology. Existing fabrication …

Soft robots manufacturing: A review

F Schmitt, O Piccin, L Barbé, B Bayle - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The growing interest in soft robots comes from the new possibilities offered by these systems
to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies. Many …