Inflatable soft jumper inspired by shell snapping

Single-Input Control of Multiple Fluid-Driven Elastic Actuators Via Interaction Between Bistability and Viscosity

(2020) Eran Ben-Haim et al.   Soft Robotics

Soft Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery

(2019) Mark Runciman et al.   Soft Robotics

Shape Control for Experimental Continuation

(2018) Robin M. Neville et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of soft, untethered robots

(2018) Tian Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hardware Sequencing of Inflatable Nonlinear Actuators for Autonomous Soft Robots

(2018) Benjamin Gorissen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dynamics of viscoelastic snap-through

(2018) Michael Gomez et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Inflated Soft Actuators with Reversible Stable Deformations

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The Geometric Role of Precisely Engineered Imperfections on the Critical Buckling Load of Spherical Elastic Shells

(2016) Anna Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Tensile Instability in a Thick Elastic Body

(2016) Johannes T. B. Overvelde et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Unidirectional Transition Waves in Bistable Lattices

(2016) Neel Nadkarni et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Stable propagation of mechanical signals in soft media using stored elastic energy

(2016) Jordan R. Raney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Buckling of spherical shells revisited

(2016) John W. Hutchinson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Multistable Architected Materials for Trapping Elastic Strain Energy

(2015) Sicong Shan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Snapping Mechanical Metamaterials under Tension

(2015) Ahmad Rafsanjani et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

Geometrically controlled snapping transitions in shells with curved creases

(2015) Nakul Prabhakar Bende et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Soft robotic glove for combined assistance and at-home rehabilitation

(2015) Panagiotis Polygerinos et al.   ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

Pneumatic Networks for Soft Robotics that Actuate Rapidly

(2014) Bobak Mosadegh et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Dynamics of snapping beams and jumping poppers

(2014) A. Pandey et al.   EPL

Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials

(2014) Bastiaan Florijn et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A Resilient, Untethered Soft Robot

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

Using Explosions to Power a Soft Robot

(2013) Robert F. Shepherd et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Soft Robotics: A Perspective—Current Trends and Prospects for the Future

(2013) Carmel Majidi   Soft Robotics

Static and dynamic snap-through behaviour of an elastic spherical shell

(2012) D. Karagiozova et al.   ACTA MECHANICA SINICA

Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material

(2010) E. Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

First jump of microgel; actuation speed enhancement by elastic instability

(2010) Howon Lee et al.   Soft Matter

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

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