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View article: Edible Pneumatic Battery for Sustained and Repeated Robot Actuation
Edible Pneumatic Battery for Sustained and Repeated Robot Actuation Open
Energy production and storage represent challenges for biodegradable and edible technologies. Here, this study describes an edible energy storage and valve system designed to power pneumatically driven edible robots. The edible pneumatic b…
View article: Charge‐Induced Morphing Gels for Bioinspired Actuation
Charge‐Induced Morphing Gels for Bioinspired Actuation Open
Drawing inspiration from natural organisms, stimuli‐responsive systems that can produce active deformation under external stimuli have the potential for enabling advanced innovations across multiple domains. However, existing actuation sys…
View article: Shapeshifting Liquid Metal Droplets for Soft Fluidic Machines
Shapeshifting Liquid Metal Droplets for Soft Fluidic Machines Open
Studying droplet dynamics is crucial for microfluidics, materials science and soft robotics. Electric and magnetic fields enable precise droplet handling for drug delivery and diagnostics, but high‐energy inputs trigger droplet instabiliti…
View article: Hybrid diacrylate resin-gelatin methacryloyl composite with bone-to-brain stiffness range
Hybrid diacrylate resin-gelatin methacryloyl composite with bone-to-brain stiffness range Open
Biointerfacing techniques for connecting implants to living tissues are advancing, but matching stiffness at hard-soft interfaces, such as between tendon and bone, remains challenging. This is critical for improving biomechanical tissue mo…
View article: A Resistive Soft Robotic Exosuit for Dynamic Body Loading in Hypogravity
A Resistive Soft Robotic Exosuit for Dynamic Body Loading in Hypogravity Open
Prolonged exposure to reduced gravity in space leads to bone demineralization and muscle atrophy, which current countermeasures of simple body loading can partially address. To address this aetiology, a resistive hypogravity exosuit (R‐HEX…
View article: Soft inflatable kirigami actuators for wearable applications
Soft inflatable kirigami actuators for wearable applications Open
Advances in soft robotics technologies have led to the development of safer human-oriented designs such as soft exosuits and wearable rehabilitative devices. A core transduction mechanism for such applications is pneumatic actuation, which…
View article: Electric Field Driven Soft Morphing Matter
Electric Field Driven Soft Morphing Matter Open
The manipulation of soft morphing robots using external electric fields and wireless control is challenging. Electric field‐driven soft morphing matter, termed electro‐morphing gel (e‐MG), that exhibits complex multimodal large‐scale defor…
View article: Requirements and Value Elicitation for a High-Fidelity Pelvic Floor Simulator for Physiotherapists: Mixed Methods Study
Requirements and Value Elicitation for a High-Fidelity Pelvic Floor Simulator for Physiotherapists: Mixed Methods Study Open
Background Physiotherapists lack training opportunities for repeated practice of pelvic examinations for the identification of pelvic floor disorders (PFDs), leading to low confidence in the clinical setting. Pelvic simulators exist and ar…
View article: Auditory and tactile frequency mapping for visual distance perception: A step forward in sensory substitution and augmentation
Auditory and tactile frequency mapping for visual distance perception: A step forward in sensory substitution and augmentation Open
Vision is crucial for daily tasks and interacting with the environment, but visual impairment can hinder these activities. Many sensory substitution products and studies prioritize providing abundant and accurate information, yet often ove…
View article: Requirements and value elicitation for a high-fidelity pelvic floor simulator for physiotherapists: A mixed-method study (Preprint)
Requirements and value elicitation for a high-fidelity pelvic floor simulator for physiotherapists: A mixed-method study (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Physiotherapists lack training opportunities for repeated practice of pelvic examinations for the identification of pelvic floor disorders (PFDs), leading to low confidence in the clinical setting. Although simulators exist and…
View article: Gecko-inspired adhesion enhanced by electroadhesive forces
Gecko-inspired adhesion enhanced by electroadhesive forces Open
Soft robotic manipulators have been increasingly adopted over the last decade due to their passive conformation to the shapes of objects, which can reduce control complexity. The performance of these grippers can be improved using flexible…
View article: Can Hugging a Soft Robotic Cushion Help When You Feel Worried?
Can Hugging a Soft Robotic Cushion Help When You Feel Worried? Open
Have you ever felt worried or scared about something? That feeling is called anxiety, and it is normal to feel this from time to time. Unfortunately, people can sometimes feel so anxious that it makes them feel sick and stops them from doi…
View article: Snail-inspired water-enhanced soft sliding suction for climbing robots
Snail-inspired water-enhanced soft sliding suction for climbing robots Open
Snails can stably slide across a surface with only a single high-payload sucker, offering an efficient adhesive locomotion mechanism for next-generation climbing robots. The critical factor for snails’ sliding suction behaviour is mucus se…
View article: Soft Gripping: Specifying for Trustworthiness
Soft Gripping: Specifying for Trustworthiness Open
Soft robotics is an emerging technology in which engineers create flexible devices for use in a variety of applications. In order to advance the wide adoption of soft robots, ensuring their trustworthiness is essential; if soft robots are …
View article: Tunable Light-Responsive Polyurethane-urea Elastomer Driven by Photochemical and Photothermal Coupling Mechanism
Tunable Light-Responsive Polyurethane-urea Elastomer Driven by Photochemical and Photothermal Coupling Mechanism Open
Light-driven soft actuators based on photoresponsive materials can be used to mimic biological motion, such as hand movements, without involving rigid or bulky electromechanical actuations. However, to our knowledge, no robust photorespons…
View article: Bioinspired multiscale adaptive suction on complex dry surfaces enhanced by regulated water secretion
Bioinspired multiscale adaptive suction on complex dry surfaces enhanced by regulated water secretion Open
Suction is a highly evolved biological adhesion strategy for soft-body organisms to achieve strong grasping on various objects. Biological suckers can adaptively attach to dry complex surfaces such as rocks and shells, which are extremely …
View article: Soft alchemy: a comprehensive guide to chemical reactions for pneumatic soft actuation
Soft alchemy: a comprehensive guide to chemical reactions for pneumatic soft actuation Open
Soft robotics has emerged as a transformative field, leveraging bio-inspired novel actuation mechanisms to enable more adaptable, compliant, and sophisticated robotic systems. However, the portability of soft pneumatic actuators is typical…
View article: Towards sensory substitution and augmentation: Mapping visual distance to audio and tactile frequency
Towards sensory substitution and augmentation: Mapping visual distance to audio and tactile frequency Open
Multimodal perception is the predominant means by which individuals experience and interact with the world. However, sensory dysfunction or loss can significantly impede this process. In such cases, cross-modality research offers valuable …
View article: Just a Breath Away: Investigating Interactions with and Perceptions of Mediated Breath via a Haptic Cushion
Just a Breath Away: Investigating Interactions with and Perceptions of Mediated Breath via a Haptic Cushion Open
Feeling another person's breathing is an intimate encounter that can promote deep connection, communicate affective information, and influence our physiological state. Emerging technologies are exploring the mediation of biosignals, such a…
View article: A Sprayable Electrically Conductive Edible Coating for Piezoresistive Strain Sensing
A Sprayable Electrically Conductive Edible Coating for Piezoresistive Strain Sensing Open
Edible electronics leverages the electronic properties of food‐derived materials to deliver safer technologies that can be degraded (or digested) in the environment (or body) at the end‐of‐life. Sensors will be central to future smart edib…
View article: A discontinuously coupled network of phase oscillators replicate actomyosin cooperation
A discontinuously coupled network of phase oscillators replicate actomyosin cooperation Open
Groups of non-processive myosin motors exhibit complex and non-linear behaviors when binding to actin. These operate at larger scales and time frames than an individual motor, indicating the presence of a strong cooperative disposition. Li…
View article: Edible, optically modulating, shape memory oleogel composites for sustainable soft robotics
Edible, optically modulating, shape memory oleogel composites for sustainable soft robotics Open
The increasing impact of technology disposal and e-waste on the environment has driven robotics scientists to develop more sustainable robots. Biodegradable and edible shape-memory polymer artificial muscles represent an important robotic …
View article: Material extrusion of sodium polyacrylate superabsorbent polymer
Material extrusion of sodium polyacrylate superabsorbent polymer Open
Sodium polyacrylate is a superabsorbent polymer, capable of absorbing hundreds of times its own mass in water. This property, and the swelling behaviour during absorption, has seen application in diverse areas, including as anti-flood meas…
View article: Soft Gripping: Specifying for Trustworthiness
Soft Gripping: Specifying for Trustworthiness Open
Soft robotics is an emerging technology in which engineers create flexible devices for use in a variety of applications. In order to advance the wide adoption of soft robots, ensuring their trustworthiness is essential; if soft robots are …
View article: A Silicone-sponge-based Variable-stiffness Device
A Silicone-sponge-based Variable-stiffness Device Open
Soft devices employ variable stiffness to ensure safety and improve the robustness in the interaction between robots and objects. Using soft materials is one of the most popular approaches to design a variable-stiffness device, while the u…