Hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic actuators with muscle-like performance

High-performance electromechanical transduction using laterally-constrained dielectric elastomers part I: Actuation processes

(2017) Soo Jin Adrian Koh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Controllable load sharing for soft adhesive interfaces on three-dimensional surfaces

(2017) Sukho Song et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Practical Approach to Soft Actuation

(2017) Barry Trimmer   Soft Robotics

Electrostatic Micro-Hydraulic Systems

(2016) Mahdi M. Sadeghi et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Skin-inspired hydrogel–elastomer hybrids with robust interfaces and functional microstructures

(2016) Hyunwoo Yuk et al.   Nature Communications

Self-Repairable, High Permittivity Dielectric Elastomers with Large Actuation Strains at Low Electric Fields

(2015) Simon J. Dünki et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

Amplifying the response of soft actuators by harnessing snap-through instabilities

(2015) Johannes T. B. Overvelde et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ionic skin

(2014) Jeong-Yun Sun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A self-healing dielectric elastomer actuator

(2014) Stacy Hunt et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Transparent hydrogel with enhanced water retention capacity by introducing highly hydratable salt

(2014) Yuanyuan Bai et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Artificial Muscles from Fishing Line and Sewing Thread

(2014) C. S. Haines et al.   SCIENCE

Harnessing large deformation and instabilities of soft dielectrics: Theory, experiment, and application

(2014) Xuanhe Zhao et al.   Applied Physics Reviews

Theory of dielectric elastomers

(2013) Zhigang Suo   ACTA MECHANICA SOLIDA SINICA

25th Anniversary Article: A Soft Future: From Robots and Sensor Skin to Energy Harvesters

(2013) Siegfried Bauer et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-sensing dielectric elastomer actuators in closed-loop operation

(2013) Samuel Rosset et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics

(2013) Sangbae Kim et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Soft-robotic arm inspired by the octopus: II. From artificial requirements to innovative technological solutions

(2012) B Mazzolai et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Soft Robotics for Chemists

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

Multigait soft robot

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

Harnessing snap-through instability in soft dielectrics to achieve giant voltage-triggered deformation

(2011) Christoph Keplinger et al.   Soft Matter

Hydrostatically Coupled Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

(2009) F. Carpi et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

Advances in Dielectric Elastomers for Actuators and Artificial Muscles

(2009) Paul Brochu et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Stacked dielectric elastomer actuator for tensile force transmission

(2009) G. Kovacs et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

Fault-Tolerant Dielectric Elastomer Actuators using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Electrodes

(2008) W. Yuan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Capacitive extensometry for transient strain analysis of dielectric elastomer actuators

(2008) Christoph Keplinger et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Soft robotics: Biological inspiration, state of the art, and future research

(2008) Deepak Trivedi et al.   Applied Bionics and Biomechanics