Soft Robotics

Article	Citations
Soft Robotics in Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation and Assistance: Current Clinical Evidence and Recommendations	228
Soft Actuator with Programmable Design: Modeling, Prototyping, and Applications	166
Modular Bioinspired Hand with Multijoint Rigid-Soft Finger Possessing Proprioception	108
Nonlinear Dynamics Research of Ground Undulatory Fin Robot with Flexible Deformation and Frictional Contact	97
Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2022 Award Recipient for Soft Robotics	91
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2022	85
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles	84
Soft Robotics to Enhance Upper Limb Endurance in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis	78
Strong Reliable Electrostatic Actuation Based on Self-Clearing Using a Thin Conductive Layer	76
Fluid Mechanics of Pneumatic Soft Robots	75
Latent Representation-Based Learning Controller for Pneumatic and Hydraulic Dual Actuation of Pressure-Driven Soft Actuators	75
Increased Longevity and Pumping Performance of an Injection Molded Soft Total Artificial Heart	65
Haptic Localization with a Soft Whisker from Moment Readings at the Base	59
Inverse Origami Design Model for Soft Robotic Development	57
3D Printed Magnetic Bionic Robot Inspired by Octopus for Drug Transportation	57
Simple and Fast Locomotion of Vibrating Asymmetric Soft Robots	57
The Walking Control of a Crab Biorobot in Amphibious Environment	54
Artificial Fingertip with Embedded Fiber-Shaped Sensing Arrays for High Resolution Tactile Sensing	53
Toward the Development of Large-Scale Inflatable Robotic Arms Using Hot Air Welding	53
Soft-Rigid Hybrid Revolute and Prismatic Joints Using Multilayered Bellow-Type Soft Pneumatic Actuators: Design, Characterization, and Its Application as Soft-Rigid Hybrid Gripper	53
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2023	52
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment	51
A Skin-Like Soft Compression Sensor for Robotic Applications	48
Monolithic Three-Dimensional Functionally Graded Hydrogels for Bioinspired Soft Robots Fabrication	47
Sigmoidal Auxiliary Tendon-Driven Mechanism Reinforcing Structural Stiffness of Hyper-Redundant Manipulator for Endoscopic Surgery	46

Microfiber-Shaped Programmable Materials with Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel	46
Force Control of a 3D Printed Soft Gripper with Built-In Pneumatic Touch Sensing Chambers	46
A Geometric Kinematic Model for Flexible Voxel-Based Robots	45
Lattice-and-Plate Model: Mechanics Modeling of Physical Origami Robots	45
Left-Handed or Right-Handed? Determinants of the Chirality of Helically Deformable Soft Actuators	43
An Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Torsionally Stiff Body and Smooth Inverse Kinematics	43
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration	43
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots	43
Exo-Glove Shell: A Hybrid Rigid-Soft Wearable Robot for Thumb Opposition with an Under-Actuated Tendon-Driven System	42
Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Robot Driven by Pneumatic Bistable Actuators	42
A Soft-Bodied Aerial Robot for Collision Resilience and Contact-Reactive Perching	42
A Soft and Bistable Gripper with Adjustable Energy Barrier for Fast Capture in Space	41
External Steering of Vine Robots via Magnetic Actuation	40
Modeling, Analysis, and Computational Design of Muscle-driven Soft Robots	40
Tactile Model O: Fabrication and Testing of a 3D-Printed, Three-Fingered Tactile Robot Hand	40
Multidimensional Tactile Sensor with a Thin Compound Eye-Inspired Imaging System	39
Stiffness Change for Reconfiguration of Inflated Beam Robots	38
Design and Development of a Continuum Robot with Switching-Stiffness	36
Bioinspired Soft Robotic Fingers with Sequential Motion Based on Tendon-Driven Mechanisms	35
Small-Scale Soft Terrestrial Robot with Electrically Driven Multi-Modal Locomotion Capability	35
Learning-Based Control for Soft Robot–Environment Interaction with Force/Position Tracking Capability	34
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability	34
Pneumatically Controlled Reconfigurable Bistable Bionic Flower for Robotic Gripper	34
Precurved, Fiber-Reinforced Actuators Enable Pneumatically Efficient Replication of Complex Biological Motions	34
Compliant, Large-Strain, and Self-Sensing Twisted String Actuators	34
Woven Fabric Muscle for Soft Wearable Robotic Application Using Two-Dimensional Zigzag Shape Memory Alloy Actuator	33
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects	32
Pneumatic System Capable of Supplying Programmable Pressure States for Soft Robots	32
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors	32
Limpet II: A Modular, Untethered Soft Robot	32
MagWorm: A Biomimetic Magnet Embedded Worm-Like Soft Robot	31
Electroactive Thermo-Pneumatic Soft Actuator with Self-Healing Features: A Critical Evaluation	31
Omnidirectional Jump Control of a Locust-Computer Hybrid Robot	31
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design	28
A Snake-Inspired Layer-Driven Continuum Robot	28
Piezo-Wormbots for Continuous Crawling	28
Robust Multimodal Indirect Sensing for Soft Robots Via Neural Network-Aided Filter-Based Estimation	27
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications	27
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot	27
A Multipole Magnetoactive Elastomer for Vibration-Driven Locomotion	26
An Exoneuromusculoskeleton for Self-Help Upper Limb Rehabilitation After Stroke	26
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers	25
3D Printed Biomimetic Soft Robot with Multimodal Locomotion and Multifunctionality	25
Tunable Folding Assembly Strategy for Soft Pneumatic Actuators	24
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation	24
V-Shape Pneumatic Torsional Actuator: A Building Block for Soft Grasper and Manipulator	24
Intentional Blocking Based Photoelectric Soft Pressure Sensor with High Sensitivity and Stability	24
A Wide-Range Stiffness-Tunable Soft Actuator Inspired by Deep-Sea Glass Sponges	24
Unlocking Versatility: Magnetic-Actuated Deployable Suction Gripper for Complex Surface Handling	23
Soft Robotic Finger with Energy-Coupled Quadrastability	23

Soft Robotics: A Route to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity in Robotics	22
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion	21
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation	21
Complex Three-Dimensional Terrains Traversal of Insect-Scale Soft Robot	21
Generative Design Procedure for Embedding Specified Planar Behavior in Modular Soft Pneumatic Actuators	21
Proprioception and Exteroception of a Soft Robotic Finger Using Neuromorphic Vision-Based Sensing	21
Combining and Decoupling Rigid and Soft Grippers to Enhance Robotic Manipulation	20
Reticular Origami Soft Robotic Gripper for Shape-Adaptive and Bistable Rapid Grasping	20
Control-Oriented Models for Hyperelastic Soft Robots Through Differential Geometry of Curves	19
Tunable, Textile-Based Joint Impedance Module for Soft Robotic Applications	19
From Skin Movement to Wearable Robotics: The Case of Robotic Gloves	18
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems	18
Armor-Based Stable Force Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Steady Actuation Properties	18
Maneuverable and Efficient Locomotion of a Myriapod Robot with Variable Body-Axis Flexibility via Instability and Bifurcation	18
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics	17
A Hybrid Anchoring Technology Composed of Reinforced Flexible Shells for a Knee Unloading Exosuit	16
SofaGym: An Open Platform for Reinforcement Learning Based on Soft Robot Simulations	15
Shock Resistive Flexure-Based Anthropomorphic Hand with Enhanced Payload	15
Squid-Inspired Powerful Untethered Soft Pumps via Magnetically Induced Phase Transitions	15
Action Augmentation of Tactile Perception for Soft-Body Palpation	15
Design and Gesture Optimization of a Soft-Rigid Robotic Hand for Adaptive Grasping	15
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli	15
Untethered Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Embedded Multiple Sensing Capabilities	14
A Millimeter-Scale Multilocomotion Microrobot Capable of Controlled Crawling and Jumping	14
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor	14
Reprogrammable Flexible Piezoelectric Actuator Arrays with a High Degree of Freedom for Shape Morphing and Locomotion	14
Flexible Manipulator with Low-Melting-Point Alloy Actuation and Variable Stiffness	14
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion	14
Bioinspired Bidirectional Stiffening Soft Actuators Enable Versatile and Robust Grasping	14
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding	14
Safe Supervisory Control of Soft Robot Actuators	14
Flexible Electronic Skin for Monitoring of Grasping State During Robotic Manipulation	13
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration	13
Origami Polyhedra-Based Soft Multicellular Robots	13
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2024	13
Design and Analytical Modeling of a Dumbbell-Shaped Balloon Anchoring Actuator for Safe and Efficient Locomotion Inside Gastrointestinal Tract	13
Fluidic Multichambered Actuator and Multiaxis Intrinsic Force Sensing	13
Tuning Stiffness with Granular Chain Structures for Versatile Soft Robots	13
Single-Actuator Soft Robot for In-Pipe Crawling	12
Pneumatic Supply System Parameter Optimization for Soft Actuators	12
Worm-Inspired, Untethered, Soft Crawling Robots for Pipe Inspections	12
Role of Fiber Orientations in the Mechanics of Bioinspired Fiber-Reinforced Elastomers	12
Variable Stiffness Devices Using Fiber Jamming for Application in Soft Robotics and Wearable Haptics	12
LM-Jelly: Liquid Metal Enabled Biomimetic Robotic Jellyfish	12
A Cephalopod-Inspired Soft-Robotic Siphon for Thrust Vectoring and Flow Rate Regulation	11
Skeletonizing the Dynamics of Soft Continuum Body from Video	11
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications	11
A Multi-Curvature Soft Gripper Based on Segmented Variable Stiffness Structure Inspired by Snake Scales	11
A Sensorized Soft Robotic Hand with Adhesive Fingertips for Multimode Grasping and Manipulation	11
Electrically Activated Soft Robots: Speed Up by Rolling	11
Variable Stiffness Electroadhesion and Compliant Electroadhesive Grippers	11
Bioinspired High-Degrees of Freedom Soft Robotic Glove for Restoring Versatile and Comfortable Manipulation	11
Bioinspired Soft Spine Enables Small-Scale Robotic Rat to Conquer Challenging Environments	11
A Hybrid Jamming Structure Combining Granules and a Chain Structure for Robotic Applications	11
Design, Modeling, and Control of a Soft Abdominal Compression Robot for Respiratory Assistance	11
Macro Fiber Composite-Actuated Soft Robotic Fish: A Gray Box Model-Predictive Motion Planning Strategy Under Limited Actuation	11
Design of a Wearable Real-Time Hand Motion Tracking System Using an Array of Soft Polymer Acoustic Waveguides	11
Spikebot: A Multigait Tensegrity Robot with Linearly Extending Struts	11
Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail	10
Teleoperation of an Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with a Metamorphic Palm and Tunable-Stiffness Soft Fingers	10
Parasitic Capacitance-Free Flexible Tactile Sensor with a Real-Contact Trigger	10
Global Vision-Based Formation Control of Soft Robotic Fish Swarm	10
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton	10
Light-Responsive Hydrogel Microcrawlers, Powered and Steered with Spatially Homogeneous Illumination	10
Variable Stiffness Object Recognition with a CNN-Bayes Classifier on a Soft Gripper	10
Deformation Characteristics of Three-Dimensional Spiral Soft Actuator Driven by Water Hydraulics for Underwater Manipulator	10
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation	10
A Navigation Algorithm to Enable Sustainable Control of Insect-Computer Hybrid Robot with Stimulus Signal Regulator and Habituation-Breaking Function	10
A Soft Material Flow Sensor for Micro Air Vehicles	10
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles	10
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming	10
Performance Enhancement of Soft Nanotextured Thermopneumatic Actuator by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into Elastomer Body	10
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming	9
Tuning the Morphology of Suction Discs to Enable Directional Adhesion for Locomotion in Wet Environments	9
A Novel Pressure-Controlled Revolute Joint with Variable Stiffness	9
Pump-Free Pneumatic Actuator Driven by the Vapor Pressure at the Gas–Liquid Equilibrium of Aqua Ammonia	9
Bioinspired Soft Electrostatic Accordion-Fold Actuators	9
Smart Skin: Vision-Based Soft Pressure Sensing System for In-Home Hand Rehabilitation	9
Educational Soft Underwater Robot with an Electromagnetic Actuation	9
Variable Rigidity Module with a Flexible Thermoelectric Device for Bidirectional Temperature Control	9

A Flexible, Acoustic Localized Sensor with Mass Block–Beam Structure Based on Polydimethylsiloxane–Silver Nanowires	9
Graphene-Based Thermopneumatic Generator for On-Board Pressure Supply of Soft Robots	9
Single-Material Solvent-Driven Polydimethylsiloxane Sponge Bending Actuators	9
Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Bimodal Bending Response Using a Single Pressure Source	9
Modeling and Optimization of Electrostatic Film Actuators Based on the Method of Moments	8
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities	8
Design and Analysis of Reconfigurable Origami-Based Vacuum Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Versatile Robotic System	8
A Sea-Anemone-Inspired, Multifunctional, Bistable Gripper	8
Bio-SHARPE: Bioinspired Soft and High Aspect Ratio Pumping Element for Robotic and Medical Applications	8
How Do Combustions Actuate High-Speed Soft Robots?	8
Origami Spring-Inspired Shape Morphing for Flexible Robotics	8
Miniaturized Circuitry for Capacitive Self-Sensing and Closed-Loop Control of Soft Electrostatic Transducers	8
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers	8
Unsupervised Sim-to-Real Adaptation of Soft Robot Proprioception Using a Dual Cross-Modal Autoencoder	8
Fast-Swimming Soft Robotic Fish Actuated by Bionic Muscle	8
MorphGI: A Self-Propelling Soft Robotic Endoscope Through Morphing Shape	8
Automatic Design Framework of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Neural Network-Based Real-Time Simulation, Genetic Algorithm-Based Electrode Optimization, and Experimental Verification	8
Soluble Polymer Pneumatic Networks and a Single-Pour System for Improved Accessibility and Durability of Soft Robotic Actuators	8
Human-Powered Master Controllers for Reconfigurable Fluidic Soft Robots	8
Characterization of Temperature and Humidity Dependence in Soft Elastomer Behavior	8
Multifunctional Soft Stackable Robots by Netting–Rolling–Splicing Pneumatic Artificial Muscles	8
Multimode Grasping Soft Gripper Achieved by Layer Jamming Structure and Tendon-Driven Mechanism	7
Electroactive Polymer-Based Soft Actuator with Integrated Functions of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Motion and Perception	7
A Novel Extensible Continuum Robot with Growing Motion Capability Inspired by Plant Growth for Path-Following in Transoral Laryngeal Surgery	7
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field	7
A Learning-Based Approach to Sensorize Soft Robots	7
Bio-Inspired Transparent Soft Jellyfish Robot	7
Soft Robots for Ocean Exploration and Offshore Operations: A Perspective	7
Sim-to-Real for High-Resolution Optical Tactile Sensing: From Images to Three-Dimensional Contact Force Distributions	7
A Holistic Indirect Contact Identification Method for Soft Robot Proprioception	7
Selaginella lepidophylla-Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator	7
Optimal Design of Electrode Topology of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Based on the Parameterized Level Set Method	7
Patient-Specific Magnetic Catheters for Atraumatic Autonomous Endoscopy	7
Origami-Inspired Soft Twisting Actuator	7
Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms	7
Dynamic Research on Nonlinear Locomotion of Inchworm-Inspired Soft Crawling Robot	7
Leaf-Like Origami with Bistability for Self-Adaptive Grasping Motions	7
Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System	7
Electro-Thermopneumatically Actuated, Adhesion-Force Controllable Octopus-Like Suction Cup Actuator	6
Origami-Enhanced Mechanical Properties for Worm-Like Robot	6
Proprioception and Control of a Soft Pneumatic Actuator Made of a Self-Healable Hydrogel	6
A Novel Approach for Optimization of Soft Material Constitutive Model Parameters Based on a Genetic Algorithm and Drucker's Stability Criterion	6
Lightweight Pneumatically Elastic Backbone Structure with Modular Construction and Nonlinear Interaction for Soft Actuators	6
Overtwisting and Coiling Highly Enhance Strain Generation of Twisted String Actuators	6
Transformable Soft Gripper: Uniting Grasping and Suction for Amphibious Cross-Scale Objects Grasping	6
A Biomimetic Adhesive Disc for Robotic Adhesion Sliding Inspired by the Net-Winged Midge Larva	6
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness	6
Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators with Free Strokes Enable Soft Robots with Programmable Motions	6
Hydraulically Amplified Rigidity-Adaptive Electrostatic Actuators with High Performance and Smooth Motion Control	6
Real-Time Shape Estimation of Hyper-Redundant Flexible Manipulator Using Coiled Fiber Sensors	6
An Air Recirculation System Based on Bioinspired Soft Re-Air Valve for Highly Efficient Pneumatic Actuation	6
Improved Assistive Profile Tracking of Exosuit by Considering Adaptive Stiffness Model and Body Movement	6