Robotic artificial muscles: Current progress and future perspectives

J Zhang, J Sheng, CT O'Neill, CJ Walsh… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic artificial muscles are a subset of artificial muscles that are capable of producing
biologically inspired motions useful for robot systems, ie, large power-to-weight ratios …

Underwater soft robotics: A review of bioinspiration in design, actuation, modeling, and control

SM Youssef, MA Soliman, MA Saleh, MA Mousa… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nature and biological creatures are some of the main sources of inspiration for humans.
Engineers have aspired to emulate these natural systems. As rigid systems become …

High-performance electrified hydrogel actuators based on wrinkled nanomembrane electrodes for untethered insect-scale soft aquabots

J Ko, C Kim, D Kim, Y Song, S Lee, B Yeom, J Huh… - Science robotics, 2022 - science.org
Hydrogels have diverse chemical properties and can exhibit reversibly large mechanical
deformations in response to external stimuli; these characteristics suggest that hydrogels are …

Mechanical integrated circuit materials

C El Helou, B Grossmann, CE Tabor, PR Buskohl… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Recent developments in autonomous engineered matter have introduced the ability for
intelligent materials to process environmental stimuli and functionally adapt,,–. To formulate …

Highly flexible, large-deformation ionic polymer metal composites for artificial muscles: Fabrication, properties, applications, and prospects

H Wang, L Yang, Y Yang, D Zhang, A Tian - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Intelligent materials are one of the important directions in the development of modern high-
tech new materials, realizing structural functionalization and functional diversification. As a …

Design, modeling, and control of biomimetic fish robot: A review

P Duraisamy, R Kumar Sidharthan… - Journal of Bionic …, 2019 - Springer
A comprehensive review on bio-inspired fish robots has been done in this article with an
enhanced focus on swimming styles, actuators, hydrodynamics, kinematic-dynamic …

Recent advances on underwater soft robots

J Qu, Y Xu, Z Li, Z Yu, B Mao, Y Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean environment has enormous uncertainty due to the influence of complex waves
and undercurrents. The human beings are limited in their abilities to detect and utilize …

Soft underwater swimming robots based on artificial muscle

R Wang, C Zhang, Y Zhang, W Tan… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the increasing requirements of underwater missions and the rapid development of soft
robotics technologies, soft underwater swimming robots have become a hot topic of …

[HTML][HTML] Gecko-and-inchworm-inspired untethered soft robot for climbing on walls and ceilings

J Sun, L Bauman, L Yu, B Zhao - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2023 - cell.com
The climbing capabilities of living creatures such as geckos, tree frogs, and inchworms
provide a promising platform for exploiting biomimetic soft climbing robots, but achieving this …

Research development on fish swimming

Y Liu, H Jiang - Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Fishes have learned how to achieve outstanding swimming performance through the
evolution of hundreds of millions of years, which can provide bio-inspiration for robotic fish …