Creative Soft Robotics

I first found a paper in IEEE that I thought was interesting: Soft, Wearable Robotics and Haptics: Technologies, Trends, and Emerging Applications [1]. This paper discussed current and future technologies for wearable soft robotics technologies considering factors such as functionality, wearability, and ergonomics. Some of these domains include rehabilitation and assistive devices, haptic interfaces, fashion,
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I start with Automatic Design and Manufacture of Soft Robots. I found the article, Automatic Design of Soft Dielectric Elastomer Actuators With Optimal Spatial Electric Fields, in the citation section and I took it as my root. I browsed through some more related articles, all of which had one thing in common and that was
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1. Closed structure soft robotic gripper Pedro P.; Ananda C.; Rafael P.B.; Carlos A.R.; Alexandre B.C. Closed structure soft robotic gripper. IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, July 2018. doi:10.1177/0278364914543793. 2. Bubble casting soft robotics Trevor J. Jones, Etienne Jambon-Puillet, Joel Marthelot, and P.-T. Brun. Bubble casting soft robotics. Nature, 599(7884):229–233, November 2021. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04029-6. 3. Bioinspired locomotion and grasping
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I started with an article called “A Multimodal Soft Crawling-Climbing Robot with the Controllable Horizontal Plane to Slope Transition” that was first written in 2019. The authors of the paper, Y. Zhang, L. Ge, J. Zhou, H. Xu and G. Gu created an inchworm-inspired soft robot that can climb planes up to a 75 degree
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I used the paper “Autonomous Soft Robotic Fish Capable of Escape Maneuvers Using Fluidic Elastomer Actuators”, cited in “Design, fabrication and control of soft robots” by Rus and Tolley as the root. From there, I used Web of Science to access all the papers that cited the root paper. The root paper had over 500
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Paper 1: Thermally Tunable, Self-Healing Composites for Soft Robotic Applications (citation 40) Polyurethane foams and 3D-printed lattice structures were covered in wax and tested at various temperatures. The results indicated that wax-coated structures have the potential to act as a much more controllable medium for robotics, allowing for controlled changes and repairs to be made to the
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Soft Robotics: A Bio-Inspired Evolution in Robotics By studying biomimicry, soft robotics has been able to better create safe and complex systems, particularly in areas like biomedical studies; however, there are still many challenges to be found in creating accurate and reliable muscle-like actuation. Sangbae Kim, Cecilia Laschi, Barry Trimmer, “Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution
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In this research, they looked at magnet connection with soft materials. They did a lot of force testing and found that magnet connectors are quick and easy but do have less strength than previously tested connectors. J. -Y. Lee and K. -J. Cho, “Development of magnet connection of modular units for soft robotics,” 2017 14th International
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Michael Wehner, Michael T. Tolley, Yiğit Mengüç, Yong-Lae Park, Annan Mozeika, Ye Ding, Cagdas Onal, Robert F. Shepherd, George M. Whitesides, and Robert J. Wood.Pneumatic Energy Sources for Autonomous and Wearable Soft Robotics.Soft Robotics.Dec 2014.263-274.http://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2014.0018 This paper is an exploration of the technical requirements in soft robot wearables, specifically regarding microcompressors (energy source) and industry-ready
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