Soft Crawling Robots: Design, Actuation, and Locomotion

A soft crawling robot driven by single twisted and coiled actuator

(2019) Xintian Tang et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

Soft Ultrathin Electronics Innervated Adaptive Fully Soft Robots

(2018) Chengjun Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Soft Robotic Grippers

(2018) Jun Shintake et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Fast Rolling Soft Robot Driven by Dielectric Elastomer

(2018) Wen-Bo Li et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

A Reconfigurable Omnidirectional Soft Robot Based on Caterpillar Locomotion

(2018) Jun Zou et al.   Soft Robotics

A Soft Tube-Climbing Robot

(2018) Mohit S. Verma et al.   Soft Robotics

Biomedical applications of soft robotics

(2018) Matteo Cianchetti et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials

(2018) Yoonho Kim et al.   NATURE

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

(2018) Wenqi Hu et al.   NATURE

Multisegment annular dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robots

(2018) Wen-Bo Li et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

A bioinspired multilegged soft millirobot that functions in both dry and wet conditions

(2018) Haojian Lu et al.   Nature Communications

A novel slithering locomotion mechanism for a snake-like soft robot

(2017) Yunteng Cao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Fundamentals of soft robot locomotion

(2017) M. Calisti et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Buckling-Induced Kirigami

(2017) Ahmad Rafsanjani et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Soft, Rotating Pneumatic Actuator

(2017) Alar Ainla et al.   Soft Robotics

Soft Dielectric Elastomer Oscillators Driving Bioinspired Robots

(2017) E.-F. Markus Henke et al.   Soft Robotics

Actuating Soft Matter with Magnetic Torque

(2016) Randall M. Erb et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Programmable Kiri-Kirigami Metamaterials

(2016) Yichao Tang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Multilayer Dielectric Elastomers for Fast, Programmable Actuation without Prestretch

(2016) Mihai Duduta et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Toward a framework for robot-inclusive environments

(2016) Ning Tan et al.   AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION

Soft mobile robots driven by foldable dielectric elastomer actuators

(2016) Wenjie Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Meet the soft, cuddly robots of the future

(2016) Helen Shen   NATURE

An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots

(2016) Michael Wehner et al.   NATURE

Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter

(2016) Guo Zhan Lum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Perching and takeoff of a robotic insect on overhangs using switchable electrostatic adhesion

(2016) M. A. Graule et al.   SCIENCE

Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale

(2016) Mikołaj Rogóż et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Real-Time Fabric Defect Detection Using Accelerated Small-Scale Over-Completed Dictionary of Sparse Coding

(2016) Tianpeng Feng et al.   International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Buckling Pneumatic Linear Actuators Inspired by Muscle

(2016) Dian Yang et al.   Advanced Materials Technologies

Actively controlled fibrillar friction surfaces

(2015) H. Marvi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator

(2015) Jun Shintake et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

Modular Robotic Systems: Characteristics and Applications

(2015) Hossein Ahmadzadeh et al.   JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS

Stick-slip friction of gecko-mimetic flaps on smooth and rough surfaces

(2015) S. Das et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Graphene kirigami

(2015) Melina K. Blees et al.   NATURE

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

A kirigami approach to engineering elasticity in nanocomposites through patterned defects

(2015) Terry C. Shyu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Towards practical actuators

(2015) David Dye   NATURE MATERIALS

Biomedical Applications of Untethered Mobile Milli/Microrobots

(2015) Metin Sitti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

(2015) N. W. Bartlett et al.   SCIENCE

Soft Robots and Society

(2015) Barry Trimmer   Soft Robotics

Pneumatic Networks for Soft Robotics that Actuate Rapidly

(2014) Bobak Mosadegh et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Enhanced Electroactive Response of Unidirectional Elastomeric Composites with High-Dielectric-Constant Fibers

(2014) Krishna Bala Subramani et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Artificial Muscles from Fishing Line and Sewing Thread

(2014) C. S. Haines et al.   SCIENCE

A small biomimetic quadruped robot driven by multistacked dielectric elastomer actuators

(2014) Canh Toan Nguyen et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Pneumatic Energy Sources for Autonomous and Wearable Soft Robotics

(2014) Michael Wehner et al.   Soft Robotics

A Resilient, Untethered Soft Robot

(2014) Michael T. Tolley et al.   Soft Robotics

An artificial muscle computer

(2013) Benjamin Marc O'Brien et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics

(2013) Sangbae Kim et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

A Hybrid Combining Hard and Soft Robots

(2013) Adam A. Stokes et al.   Soft Robotics

Tribological analysis of the ventral scale structure in aPython regiusin relation to laser textured surfaces

(2013) H A Abdel-Aal et al.   Surface Topography-Metrology and Properties

Large, uni-directional actuation in dielectric elastomers achieved by fiber stiffening

(2012) Jiangshui Huang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Omega-Shaped Inchworm-Inspired Crawling Robot With Large-Index-and-Pitch (LIP) SMA Spring Actuators

(2012) Je-Sung Koh et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

A turtle-like swimming robot using a smart soft composite (SSC) structure

(2012) Hyung-Jung Kim et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

An IPMC-made deformable-ring-like robot

(2012) A Firouzeh et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Soft Robotics for Chemists

(2011) Filip Ilievski et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Soft generators using dielectric elastomers

(2011) Thomas G. McKay et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

GoQBot: a caterpillar-inspired soft-bodied rolling robot

(2011) Huai-Ti Lin et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

An octopus-bioinspired solution to movement and manipulation for soft robots

(2011) M Calisti et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Electroactive Elastomeric Actuators for the Implementation of a Deformable Spherical Rover

(2011) Matteo Artusi et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

A fast, high-endurance and scalable non-volatile memory device made from asymmetric Ta2O5−x/TaO2−x bilayer structures

(2011) Myoung-Jae Lee et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Multigait soft robot

(2011) R. F. Shepherd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Facile Template-Free Approach to Magnetodriven, Multifunctional Artificial Cilia

(2010) Jaakko V. I. Timonen et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Microrobots for Minimally Invasive Medicine

(2010) Bradley J. Nelson et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Dielectric elastomer switches for smart artificial muscles

(2010) Benjamin M. O’Brien et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Fabrication and Control of Rectilinear Artificial Muscle Actuator

(2010) Nguyen Huu Chuc et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

Pneumatic and hydraulic microactuators: a review

(2010) Michaël De Volder et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Integrated elastomeric components for autonomous regulation of sequential and oscillatory flow switching in microfluidic devices

(2010) Bobak Mosadegh et al.   Nature Physics

Dynamic Rolling for a Modular Loop Robot

(2009) Jimmy Sastra et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

The mechanics of slithering locomotion

(2009) D. L. Hu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY