Microelectronic Morphogenesis: Smart Materials with Electronics Assembling into Artificial Organisms

JS McCaskill, D Karnaushenko, M Zhu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microelectronic morphogenesis is the creation and maintenance of complex functional
structures by microelectronic information within shape‐changing materials. Only recently …

Elephant Trunk Inspired Multimodal Deformations and Movements of Soft Robotic Arms

S Leanza, J Lu‐Yang, B Kaczmarski… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Elephant trunks are capable of complex, multimodal deformations, allowing them to perform
task‐oriented high‐degree‐of‐freedom (DOF) movements pertinent to the field of soft …

A review of extensible continuum robots: mechanical structure, actuation methods, stiffness variability, and control methods

EA Alandoli, Y Fan, D Liu - Robotica, 2024 - cambridge.org
Extensible continuum robots (ECRs) offer distinct advantages over conventional continuum
robots due to their ability to enhance workspace adaptability through length adjustments …

Design and kinematics of a novel continuum robot connected by unique offset cross revolute joints

M Li, Y Xu, G Li, Z Guo - Journal of Mechanisms and …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Continuum robots have increasingly attracted attention from the scholars in the last two
decades, owing to their distinct features of hyper-redundant degrees of freedom (DOF) …

A soft miniaturized continuum robot with 3D shape sensing via functionalized soft optical waveguides

V Del Bono, M McCandless, FJ Wise… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a fully soft miniaturized continuum robot that integrates 3D optical
shape sensing through functionalized tubing used as soft optical waveguides. The sensor is …

Seahorse-Tail-Inspired Soft Pneumatic Actuator: Development and Experimental Characterization

MG Antonelli, P Beomonte Zobel, MA Sarwar… - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
The study of bio-inspired structures and their reproduction has always fascinated humans.
The advent of soft robotics, thanks to soft materials, has enabled considerable progress in …

Adaptive tensegrity foot design for quadruped robots in unstructured terrains

H Dong, J Gan, R Xia, Z Lu, B Chen… - Smart Materials and …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Traditional quadruped robots are known for their agile movement and versatility across
varied terrains. However, their foot structures struggle to navigate unstructured terrains such …

Hybrid-Driven Continuum Robot with Decoupled Motion Patterns for Dexterous Manipulation

J Hu, J Zhang, Y Zheng, B Wang, J Wu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuum robots always exhibit strong adaptability for exploring unstructured environments
and high safety for achieving human-machine interactions. To further enhance their agility, it …