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View article: Medical & healthcare robotics: a roadmap for enhanced precision, safety, and efficacy
Medical & healthcare robotics: a roadmap for enhanced precision, safety, and efficacy Open
Medical robotics holds transformative potential for healthcare. Robots excel in tasks requiring precision, including surgery and minimally invasive interventions, and they can enhance diagnostics through improved automated imaging techniqu…
View article: A Holistic Approach Towards Evaluating Upper Limb Function in Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Narrative Review of Clinical Tools and Promising Technologies for Comprehensive Assessment
A Holistic Approach Towards Evaluating Upper Limb Function in Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Narrative Review of Clinical Tools and Promising Technologies for Comprehensive Assessment Open
Optimal upper limb (UpL) function is essential for performing daily activities; however, children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy (USCP) often experience impairments in UpL function, which can impact their quality of life or indepen…
View article: Soft robotics: what’s next in bioinspired design and applications of soft robots?
Soft robotics: what’s next in bioinspired design and applications of soft robots? Open
The field of soft robotics has shown unprecedented growth in research efforts, scientific achievements, and technological advancements. Bioinspiration and biomimetics have played an instrumental role in the birth and growth of soft robotic…
View article: Editorial: Advancing soft, tactile, and haptic technologies: recent developments for healthcare applications
Editorial: Advancing soft, tactile, and haptic technologies: recent developments for healthcare applications Open
View article: Scan and 3D Print: Magnetic Resonance Imaging‐Guided, Monolithic Desktop Fabrication of Highly Biomimetic Skeletal System of the Human Hand
Scan and 3D Print: Magnetic Resonance Imaging‐Guided, Monolithic Desktop Fabrication of Highly Biomimetic Skeletal System of the Human Hand Open
3D‐printed human‐inspired hands, while visually similar to their biological counterparts, often lack key features that enable the unique capabilities of human hands. In this research, a framework for desktop 3D printing patient‐specific hu…
View article: A soft robotic total artificial hybrid heart
A soft robotic total artificial hybrid heart Open
View article: Soft yet Effective Robots via Holistic Co-Design
Soft yet Effective Robots via Holistic Co-Design Open
Soft robots promise inherent safety via their material compliance for seamless interactions with humans or delicate environments. Yet, their development is challenging because it requires integrating materials, geometry, actuation, and aut…
View article: Wearable sensors for measuring spontaneous upper limb use in children with unilateral cerebral palsy and typical development
Wearable sensors for measuring spontaneous upper limb use in children with unilateral cerebral palsy and typical development Open
View article: Adaptive Drift Compensation for Soft Sensorized Finger Using Continual Learning
Adaptive Drift Compensation for Soft Sensorized Finger Using Continual Learning Open
Strain sensors are gaining popularity in soft robotics for acquiring tactile data due to their flexibility and ease of integration. Tactile sensing plays a critical role in soft grippers, enabling them to safely interact with unstructured …
View article: Design of a Soft Robotic Artificial Cardiac Wall
Design of a Soft Robotic Artificial Cardiac Wall Open
Background In cardiovascular engineering, the recent introduction of soft robotic technologies sheds new light on the future of implantable cardiac devices, enabling the replication of complex bioinspired architectures and motions. To supp…
View article: Soft Robots Proprioception Through Stretchable Laser‐Induced Graphene Strain Sensors
Soft Robots Proprioception Through Stretchable Laser‐Induced Graphene Strain Sensors Open
Soft robotic grippers enable the safe manipulation of delicate objects, guaranteeing their integrity when handled and collected. Integrating sensors into these grippers can enable their proprioception but must avoid compromising flexibilit…
View article: A Multi-physics Model for Phase Change Actuation in Soft Robotics: Towards Untethered Soft Robots
A Multi-physics Model for Phase Change Actuation in Soft Robotics: Towards Untethered Soft Robots Open
View article: Inherent Behavioral Stochasticity in Soft Robots: Analysis and Control Strategies
Inherent Behavioral Stochasticity in Soft Robots: Analysis and Control Strategies Open
The unique composition of soft robots, predominantly constructed from elastomers and polymers, amplifies the likelihood of unpredictability in their performance, setting the stage for significant behavioral stochasticity as compared to the…
View article: Soft Crawling Robot With a Dual-Morphing Origami Configuration
Soft Crawling Robot With a Dual-Morphing Origami Configuration Open
View article: VARISA - A VARIable Stiffness soft robotics Arm based on inverse pneumatic actuators and differential drive fiber jamming
VARISA - A VARIable Stiffness soft robotics Arm based on inverse pneumatic actuators and differential drive fiber jamming Open
View article: Pushing with Soft Robotic Arms via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Pushing with Soft Robotic Arms via Deep Reinforcement Learning Open
Soft robots can adaptively interact with unstructured environments. However, nonlinear soft material properties challenge modeling and control. Learning‐based controllers that leverage efficient mechanical models are promising for solving …
View article: Soft Robotics: A Route to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity in Robotics
Soft Robotics: A Route to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity in Robotics Open
Robotics is entering our daily lives. The discipline is increasingly crucial in fields such as agriculture, medicine, and rescue operations, impacting our food, health, and planet. At the same time, it is becoming evident that robotic rese…
View article: Enriching Contact Information Through Fiber Bragg Gratings-Based Exteroception in Soft Bending Actuators
Enriching Contact Information Through Fiber Bragg Gratings-Based Exteroception in Soft Bending Actuators Open
Tactile sensing is of utmost importance for accomplishing fine manipulation tasks and extracting crucial physical features in soft grippers. A contact force estimation and localization approach based on sensing modalities using Fiber Bragg…
View article: Data-Driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review
Data-Driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review Open
Soft robots show compliance and have infinite degrees of freedom. Thanks to these properties, such robots can be leveraged for surgery, rehabilitation, biomimetics, unstructured environment exploring, and industrial grippers. In this case,…
View article: Harnessing Mechanical Instabilities in the Development of an Efficient Soft Pump for an Artificial Heart Ventricle Simulator
Harnessing Mechanical Instabilities in the Development of an Efficient Soft Pump for an Artificial Heart Ventricle Simulator Open
While mechanical instabilities were traditionally considered as failure events, triggering them in a controlled fashion recently paved the way to novel functionalities and improved performance, especially in systems made of soft materials.…
View article: Fiber Jamming of Magnetorheological Elastomers as a Technique for the Stiffening of Soft Robots
Fiber Jamming of Magnetorheological Elastomers as a Technique for the Stiffening of Soft Robots Open
There has been a notable focus on the adoption of jamming-based technologies, which involve increasing the friction between grains, layers, or fibers to achieve variable stiffness capability in soft robots. Additionally, magnetorheological…
View article: Variable stiffness structure inspired by seashells
Variable stiffness structure inspired by seashells Open
Variable stiffness is typically employed in soft robotics to address the trade-off between compliance and the ability to generate stability when required. Among the several approaches investigated, jamming transition systems show remarkabl…
View article: Design of a novel wearable system for healthcare applications: applying the user-centred design approach to SensHand device
Design of a novel wearable system for healthcare applications: applying the user-centred design approach to SensHand device Open
View article: Towards a Bioinspired Soft Robotic Gripper for Gentle Manipulation of Mushrooms
Towards a Bioinspired Soft Robotic Gripper for Gentle Manipulation of Mushrooms Open
Soft Robotics showed great potential in applications where safety and compliance are key factors for the interaction of the robot with delicate objects and the environment. Mushroom harvesting nowadays is mainly performed by human harveste…
View article: Flexible Over-the-Tube Device for Soft-Tethered Colonoscopy
Flexible Over-the-Tube Device for Soft-Tethered Colonoscopy Open
Soft-tethered colonoscopes were proposed for safe and effective colon navigation, yet the deployment of front-wheel actuated colonoscopes is hindered by contact interactions with the lumen along the entire soft tether. To mitigate this pro…
View article: Artificial intelligence for the recognition of benign lesions of vocal folds from audio recordings
Artificial intelligence for the recognition of benign lesions of vocal folds from audio recordings Open
This study showed moderately accurate detection of four types of BLVF using acoustic signals. The analysis of the diagnostic results on gender subgroups highlights different behaviours of the diagnostic model.
View article: Data-driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review
Data-driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review Open
Soft robots show compliance and have infinite degrees of freedom. Thanks to these properties, such robots can be leveraged for surgery, rehabilitation, biomimetics, unstructured environment exploring, and industrial grippers. In this case,…
View article: Wearable accelerometers for measuring and monitoring the motor behaviour of infants with brain damage during CareToy-Revised training
Wearable accelerometers for measuring and monitoring the motor behaviour of infants with brain damage during CareToy-Revised training Open
View article: Variable Kinematics enabled by Layer Jamming Transition in a Soft Bending Actuator
Variable Kinematics enabled by Layer Jamming Transition in a Soft Bending Actuator Open
In soft robotics, variable stiffness is typically employed to solve the trade-off between compliance and the ability to exert high forces. However, modulating the stiffness of a soft actuator can also provide control over its deformation a…
View article: User-Driven Design and Development of an Underwater Soft Gripper for Biological Sampling and Litter Collection
User-Driven Design and Development of an Underwater Soft Gripper for Biological Sampling and Litter Collection Open
Implementing manipulation and intervention capabilities in underwater vehicles is of crucial importance for commercial and scientific reasons. Mainstream underwater grippers are designed for the heavy load tasks typical of the industrial s…