Soft robotics enables the design of soft machines and devices at different scales. The
compliance and mechanical properties of soft robots make them especially interesting for …

Purpose Soft robotics is currently a rapidly growing new field of robotics whereby the robots
are fundamentally soft and elastically deformable. Fabrication of soft robots is currently …

Soft robotic devices have desirable traits for applications in minimally invasive surgery (MIS),
but many interdisciplinary challenges remain unsolved. To understand current technologies …

Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …

Soft actuators are attracting increasing attention for their great potentials in transportation,
exploration and clinical treatments, especially the magnetic-driven soft actuators powered by …

Abstract Micro-electromechanical-system (MEMS) based actuators, which transduce certain
domains of energy into mechanical movements in the microscopic scale, are increasingly …

Background Soft and flexible robots for medical applications are needed to change their
flexibility over a wide range to perform tasks adequately. The mechanism and theory of …

The compliant nature of soft fingers allows for safe and dexterous manipulation of objects by
humans in an unstructured environment. A soft prosthetic finger design with tactile sensing …

Developments in medical device design result in advances in wearable technologies,
minimally invasive surgical techniques, and patient-specific approaches to medicine. In this …

Soft robots have proved to represent a new frontier for the development of intelligent
machines able to show new capabilities that can complement those currently performed by …