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This paper discusses the formulation of a soft robotic tongue, using silicone rubber cured with 3D printed molds and a tongue surface reconstruction algorithm, that can simulate human tongue motion and measurement of tongue pressure against a human palate in vitro through pneumatic actuation.
X. Lu, W. Xu, and X. Li. A Soft Robotic Tongue—Mechatronic Design and Surface Reconstruction. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 22(5):2102–2110, October 2017. doi:10.1109/TMECH.2017.2748606
This paper discusses the formation of a soft bending actuator through individual magnetic components with air chambers, and it reveals that these actuators have lower maximum connecting strength than actuators built with screw-thread connectors, but assembling and disassembling these actuators is simpler.
J. Lee, K. Cho. Development of Magnetic Connection of Modular Units for Soft Robotics. 2017 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2017, pp. 65-67, doi: 10.1109/URAI.2017.7992886.
This paper discusses FlowIO, a wearable pneumatic development platform that reduces the barrier to entry for experimentation with pneumatics, and is physically comprised of a controller with five pneumatic I/O ports and a pump module available in multiple sizes, as well as a pneumatic driver and API on the software end.
A. Shtarbanov. 2021. FlowIO Development Platform – the Pneumatic “Raspberry Pi” for Soft Robotics. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 479, 1–6. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3451513