... a maximum speed of 14.67 cm/s and a propulsive force of 19.20 N. With the flexibility of the soft robot, the soft manipulator can adapt to the environment under propulsion to pass obstacles. The experiments of self-adaptability performance tests under different conditions show that the robot can pass over...

... 07 2023 16 08 2023 robot fish soft tail locomotion easy-to-fabricate bio-inspired mechanisms and robots soft robots underwater robotics Memorial University of Newfoundland 10.13039/501100005616 212948 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada...

... of ASME for publication in the J ournal of M echanisms and R obotics . 24 10 2022 16 06 2023 23 06 2023 08 08 2023 energy-saving shape memory alloy tristable structure leaf spring 3D printing mechanism design soft robots Soft grippers can grip objects...

... Corresponding author. Email: shiakolas@uta.edu Contributed by Mechanisms and Robotics Committee of ASME for publication in the J ournal of M echanisms and R obotics . 07 11 2022 04 06 2023 07 06 2023 25 07 2023 mechanism design medical robotics soft robots...

...Yitong Zhou; Zefeng Xu Bistable soft robots are gaining momentum for their fast speed. This study presents a novel asymmetric mechanically prestressed, pneumatically driven, bistable laminated soft actuator. Its two orthogonal stable shapes are created by prestretching two orthogonal elastomer...

...Revanth Konda; David Bombara; Ember Chow; Jun Zhang Realizing high-performance soft robots is challenging because many existing soft or compliant actuators exhibit limitations like fabrication complexity, high power requirement, slow actuation, and low force generation. Due to their high-force...

... for publication in the J ournal of M echanisms and R obotics . 04 12 2022 16 04 2023 17 04 2023 02 05 2023 cable-driven mechanisms mechanism design medical robotics soft robots Tendon-driven robotic manipulators (TDRMs) have been used for various applications...

... in the J ournal of M echanisms and R obotics . 14 06 2022 09 03 2023 10 03 2023 18 04 2023 folding and origami mechanism design mobile robots soft robots Many environments are still difficult for modern mobile robots to traverse, such as cave systems and forest...

... of M echanisms and R obotics . 15 06 2022 10 02 2023 10 02 2023 28 03 2023 bio-inspired design robot design soft robots tensegrity continuum manipulator soft manipulator Tensegrity mechanisms synergistically combine ten sion elements (pre-stressed cables...

... in the J ournal of M echanisms and R obotics . 06 08 2022 12 12 2022 14 12 2022 23 01 2023 compliant mechanisms multi-body dynamics and exoskeletons soft robots wearable robots National Natural Science Foundation of China 10.13039/501100001809 51875335...

... 2022 04 10 2022 09 12 2022 compliant mechanisms mechanism design soft robots National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 10.13039/501100003725 2020R1A4A1018227 2021R1A2C3012387 A soft robotic gripper is an efficient end-effector that can pick and place various...

...Qingyu Xiao; Mishek Musa; Isuru S. Godage; Hao Su; Yue Chen Soft robots can undergo large elastic deformations and adapt to complex shapes. However, they lack the structural strength to withstand external loads due to the intrinsic compliance of fabrication materials (silicone or rubber...

... mechanism design parallel platforms soft robots theoretical kinematics A continuum robot is defined as an actuatable structure whose constitutive material forms curves with continuous tangent vectors [ 1 ]. The very nature of inherent compliance and ease of miniaturization make them suitable...

... soft robot deduced via the adopted Discrete Cosserat method. The proposed methodology is validated on several planar and spatial slender soft manipulators’ configurations, where we show its advantage of reducing computation complexity for estimating the workspace, compared to traditional forward...

... cable-driven mechanisms control folding and origami mechanism design parallel platforms robot design soft robots The extensible continuum robot is an important branch of reconfigurable robots. Compared with traditional robots, its control system is more integrated and its structural design...

...Oyuna Angatkina; Andrew G. Alleyne; Aimy Wissa This article presents critical design modifications for an O rigami-enabled S oft C rawling A utonomous R obot (OSCAR). OSCAR’s upgraded design mitigates motion uncertainties, which often plague soft robots. More specifically, we present a design...

... Foundation (Grant No. 1832795), “EFRI C3 SoRo: Muscle-like Cellular Architectures and Compliant, Distributed Sensing and Control for Soft Robots.” There are no conflicts of interest. The datasets generated and supporting the findings of this article are obtainable from the corresponding author...

... by the US National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1832795, “EFRI C3 SoRo: Muscle-like Cellular Architectures and Compliant, Distributed Sensing, and Control for Soft Robots”. In future work, we plan to use the stiffness and strain characteristics obtained in this two-part paper to predict...

... Contributed by the Mechanisms and Robotics Committee of ASME for publication in the J ournal of M echanisms and R obotics . 12 09 2021 31 05 2022 31 05 2022 22 06 2022 bio-inspired design mechanism design mobile robots robot design soft robots Japan Society...

... Contributed by the Mechanisms and Robotics Committee of ASME for publication in the J ournal of M echanisms and R obotics . 16 01 2022 12 05 2022 13 05 2022 21 06 2022 mobile robots robot design soft robots Guangzhou Science and Technology Program key projects...