Abstract Purpose of Review Soft electronic skins (E-skins) capable of tactile pressure
sensing have the potential to endow robotic systems with many of the same somatosensory …

The past decades have witnessed the rapid development in soft, stretchable, and
biocompatible devices for applications in biomedical monitoring, personal healthcare, and …

Soft robots built with active soft materials have been increasingly attractive. Despite
tremendous efforts in soft sensors and actuators, it remains extremely challenging to …

Because of their continuous and natural motion, fluidically powered soft actuators have
shown potential in a range of robotic applications, including prosthetics and orthotics …

Many robotic tasks require knowledge of the exact 3D robot geometry. However, this
remains extremely challenging in soft robotics because of the infinite degrees of freedom of …

In a step toward soft robot proprioception, and therefore better control, this paper presents
an internally illuminated elastomer foam that has been trained to detect its own deformation …

Flesh encodes a variety of haptic information including deformation, temperature, vibration,
and damage stimuli using a multisensory array of mechanoreceptors distributed on the …

Since the emergence of soft robotics around two decades ago, research interest in the field
has escalated at a pace. It is fuelled by the industry's appreciation of the wide range of soft …

Soft robots exhibit many exciting properties due to their softness and body compliance.
However, to interact with the environment safely and to perform a task effectively, a soft robot …

With rapid emergence of multi-drug resistant microbes, it is imperative to seek alternative
means for infection control. Optical waveguides are an auspicious delivery method for …