Tag: soft robotics

A new review in the Journal of Materials Science traces 25 years of dielectric elastomer research, from electromechanical fundamentals to ...

A one-step meniscus-guided 3D nanoprinting technique produces bioinspired AuNP–PVP microactuators that deform reversibly under humidity and can lift roughly 800 ...

A screen-printed stretchable strain sensing array showed larger resistance responses than a commercial strain gauge across tested humidity and temperature ...

A new study reports that an embedded segmented PLA hinge skeleton plus incremental PID closed-loop control raised fingertip output force ...

NIMS researchers created a porous anchor layer by simply coating and drying a solution, bonding dissimilar materials such as glass ...

Scientists have built the first fully edible tilt sensor that measures continuous tilt angles from 0 to 80 degrees using ...

Delft University of Technology researchers demonstrated a light-controlled soft actuator coated with microalgae that bends reversibly, grasps a metal ball ...

A review of 100 untethered soft-robot studies finds that habitat-specific physics constrains body design, actuation and energy delivery more strongly ...

A knifefish-inspired robot called Naiad combines an undulating ribbon fin with an actively bendable body to achieve agile turning, vertical ...

Physicists have engineered mechatronic metamaterials in which non-reciprocal wave coarsening drives spontaneous synchronization into a classical time crystal, with frictional ...