Soft pneumatic actuators: A review of design, fabrication, modeling, sensing, control and applications

MS Xavier, CD Tawk, A Zolfagharian, J Pinskier… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotics is a rapidly evolving field where robots are fabricated using highly deformable
materials and usually follow a bioinspired design. Their high dexterity and safety make them …

3D printed microfluidics: advances in strategies, integration, and applications

R Su, F Wang, MC McAlpine - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to construct multiplexed micro-systems for fluid regulation could substantially
impact multiple fields, including chemistry, biology, biomedicine, tissue engineering, and soft …

Single-vat single-cure grayscale digital light processing 3D printing of materials with large property difference and high stretchability

L Yue, S Macrae Montgomery, X Sun, L Yu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multimaterial additive manufacturing has important applications in various emerging fields.
However, it is very challenging due to material and printing technology limitations. Here, we …

Desktop fabrication of monolithic soft robotic devices with embedded fluidic control circuits

Y Zhai, A De Boer, J Yan, B Shih, M Faber, J Speros… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Most soft robots are pneumatically actuated and fabricated by molding and assembling
processes that typically require many manual operations and limit complexity. Furthermore …

Piezo robotic hand for motion manipulation from micro to macro

S Zhang, Y Liu, J Deng, X Gao, J Li, W Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multiple degrees of freedom (DOFs) motion manipulation of various objects is a crucial skill
for robotic systems, which relies on various robotic hands. However, traditional robotic …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printing of magneto-active smart materials for advanced actuators and soft robotics applications

MY Khalid, ZU Arif, A Tariq, M Hossain, KA Khan… - European Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the contemporary era, novel manufacturing technologies like additive manufacturing (AM)
have revolutionized the different engineering sectors including biomedical, aerospace …

3D-printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators

S Conrad, J Teichmann, P Auth, N Knorr, K Ulrich… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
Soft robots are paving their way to catch up with the application range of metal-based
machines and to occupy fields that are challenging for traditional machines. Pneumatic …

A compact DEA-based soft peristaltic pump for power and control of fluidic robots

S Xu, CM Nunez, M Souri, RJ Wood - Science robotics, 2023 - science.org
Fluid-driven robotic systems typically use bulky and rigid power supplies, considerably
limiting their mobility and flexibility. Although various forms of low-profile soft pumps have …

Fluidic computation kit: Towards electronic-free shape-changing interfaces

Q Lu, H Xu, Y Guo, JY Wang, L Yao - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Although fluidic computation has been utilized to develop interactive devices in the field of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), the limited computation complexity of previous work …

A fluidic relaxation oscillator for reprogrammable sequential actuation in soft robots

LC van Laake, J de Vries, SM Kani, JTB Overvelde - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Despite exciting developments in soft robotics, fully autonomous systems remain elusive.
Fluidic circuits could enable fully embedded control of soft robots without using electronics …