Soft manipulator is a kind of special manipulator that uses soft material or flexible structure to
perform manipulation task under the specific drive mode inspired by the soft tissue. It is …

Touch is one most of the important aspects of human life. Nearly all interactions, when
broken down, involve touch in one form or another. Recent advances in technology …

The emerging generation of robots composed of soft materials strives to match biological
motor adaptation skills via shape-shifting. Soft robots often harness volumetric expansion …

Soft robotics aims at creating systems with improved performance of movement and
adaptability in unknown, challenging, environments and with higher level of safety during …

Variable stiffness actuation has applications in a wide range of fields, including wearable
haptics, soft robots, and minimally invasive surgical devices. There have been numerous …

Jamming is a structural phenomenon that provides tunable mechanical behavior. A jamming
structure typically consists of a collection of elements with low effective stiffness and …

Soft robots are well-suited for human-centric applications, but the compliance that gives soft
robots this advantage must also be paired with adequate stiffness modulation such that soft …

Flexible manipulators offer significant advantages over traditional rigid manipulators in
minimally invasive surgery, because they can flexibly navigate around obstacles and pass …

Variable stiffness technologies have been widely adopted in soft robotics, also combining
them with different actuation technologies and demonstrating the potential to increase the …

The tight coupling of shape transformation, stiffness tuning, and self‐sensing that biological
organisms exhibit has long served as inspiration for next‐generation soft robots. However …