10 accepted papers
Some applications, such as surgical interventions, require that potential soft robots have the capability to alter their shape and enhance their force output on demand. This paper presents an antagonistic stiffening mechanism combining pneumatic actuation with tendon locking to achieve configuration
Soft material robotic systems offer inherent safety and flexibility due to their low material stiffness. Therefore, soft material robots are prone to operate in unknown environments and fulfill tasks that involve and even exploit contact with the environment. Moving to the application of soft robots
Deep-sea research represents invaluable opportunities to unravel hidden ecosystems, uncover unknown biodiversity, and provide critical insights into the Earth’s history and the impacts of climate change. Due to the extreme conditions, exploring the deep-sea traditionally requires costly equipment, s…
The extreme conditions of the deep sea require the use of large and expensive diving robots designed to withstand the high pressure in these depths. In order to reduce the costs for sediment sampling in the deep sea and thus facilitate the explorations of rare deep-sea ecosystems, the goal of this r…
Soft Robotics has established itself as an integral field in the broader discipline of general robotics through multiple advantages like inherent safety, adaptable morphology, and energy- and weight efficiency. Especially in environments hostile to humans and classical robots like the deep sea, soft…
Compared to their rigid counterparts, soft material robotic systems offer great advantages when it comes to flexibility and adaptability. Despite their advantages, modeling of soft systems is still a challenging task, due to the continuous and often highly nonlinear nature of deformation these syste…
Soft material robotics is a rather young research field in the robotics and material science communities. A popular design is the soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) which, if connected serially, becomes a highly compliant manipulator. This high compliance makes it possible to adapt to the environment and…
Soft material robots offer a number of advantages over traditional rigid robots in applications including human-robot interaction, rehabilitation and surgery. These robots can navigate around obstacles, elongate, squeeze through narrow openings or be squeezed - and they are considered to be inherent…
Soft material robotic systems provide increased adaptability and flexibility compared to conventional rigid metal robots. The soft systems benefit from their inherent compliance, which enables them to be used in applications that require safe interaction between humans and robots or manipulation in…
Robots made from soft materials have recently captured the interest of researchers from a range of fields including engineers, material scientists, and chemists, biologists, and computer scientists. This new paradigm of soft robotics aims to develop more adaptable, more capable and safer robots that…