Soft Actuators and Robots that Are Resistant to Mechanical Damage

Soft Machines That are Resistant to Puncture and That Self Seal

(2013) Robert F. Shepherd et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Using Explosions to Power a Soft Robot

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

Control of soft machines using actuators operated by a Braille display

(2013) Bobak Mosadegh et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Stretchable, Transparent, Ionic Conductors

(2013) C. Keplinger et al.   SCIENCE

Elastomeric Origami: Programmable Paper-Elastomer Composites as Pneumatic Actuators

(2012) Ramses V. Martinez et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Robotic Tentacles with Three-Dimensional Mobility Based on Flexible Elastomers

(2012) Ramses V. Martinez et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Motion Control of Hydraulic Quadruped Robot Based on Central Pattern Generator

(2012) Bin Chen et al.  

Camouflage and Display for Soft Machines

(2012) S. A. Morin et al.   SCIENCE

First controlled vertical flight of a biologically inspired microrobot

(2011) Néstor O Pérez-Arancibia et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

GoQBot: a caterpillar-inspired soft-bodied rolling robot

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

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

Very High Force Hydraulic McKibben Artificial Muscle with a p-Phenylene-2,6-benzobisoxazole Cord Sleeve

(2010) Mayuko Mori et al.   ADVANCED ROBOTICS

Design and analysis of a novel 6-DOF redundant actuated parallel robot with compliant hinges for high precision positioning

(2010) Yuan Yun et al.   NONLINEAR DYNAMICS

Rontgen's electrode-free elastomer actuators without electromechanical pull-in instability

(2010) C. Keplinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Stretching Dielectric Elastomer Performance

(2010) F. Carpi et al.   SCIENCE

Steerable miniature jumping robot

(2009) Mirko Kovač et al.   AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS

Soft robotics

(2008) Alin Albu-Schaffer et al.   IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE

Sensor Referenced Real-Time Videolization of Atomic Force Microscopy for Nanomanipulations

(2008) Lianqing Liu et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

The DLR MIRO: a versatile lightweight robot for surgical applications

(2008) U. Hagn et al.   Industrial Robot-The International Journal of Robotics Research and Application

Mechanical properties of silicones for MEMS

(2008) F Schneider et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING