Soft Robotics

Article	Citations
Soft Robotics in Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation and Assistance: Current Clinical Evidence and Recommendations	204
Soft Actuator with Programmable Design: Modeling, Prototyping, and Applications	151
Modular Bioinspired Hand with Multijoint Rigid-Soft Finger Possessing Proprioception	90
Nonlinear Dynamics Research of Ground Undulatory Fin Robot with Flexible Deformation and Frictional Contact	84
Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2022 Award Recipient for Soft Robotics	75
Soft, Wearable, and Pleated Pneumatic Interference Actuator Provides Knee Extension Torque for Sit-to-Stand	75
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2022	71
Soft Robotics to Enhance Upper Limb Endurance in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis	68
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles	68
An Exoneuromusculoskeleton for Self-Help Upper Limb Rehabilitation After Stroke	61
Electroactive Thermo-Pneumatic Soft Actuator with Self-Healing Features: A Critical Evaluation	59
Strong Reliable Electrostatic Actuation Based on Self-Clearing Using a Thin Conductive Layer	59
Inverse Origami Design Model for Soft Robotic Development	54
Latent Representation-Based Learning Controller for Pneumatic and Hydraulic Dual Actuation of Pressure-Driven Soft Actuators	54
Increased Longevity and Pumping Performance of an Injection Molded Soft Total Artificial Heart	54
Simple and Fast Locomotion of Vibrating Asymmetric Soft Robots	51
The Walking Control of a Crab Biorobot in Amphibious Environment	47
Artificial Fingertip with Embedded Fiber-Shaped Sensing Arrays for High Resolution Tactile Sensing	45
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability	45
Haptic Localization with a Soft Whisker from Moment Readings at the Base	44
Toward the Development of Large-Scale Inflatable Robotic Arms Using Hot Air Welding	43
Soft-Rigid Hybrid Revolute and Prismatic Joints Using Multilayered Bellow-Type Soft Pneumatic Actuators: Design, Characterization, and Its Application as Soft-Rigid Hybrid Gripper	43
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2023	40
A Snake-Inspired Layer-Driven Continuum Robot	40
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot	39

YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment	38
Modeling, Analysis, and Computational Design of Muscle-driven Soft Robots	38
Force Control of a 3D Printed Soft Gripper with Built-In Pneumatic Touch Sensing Chambers	38
A Skin-Like Soft Compression Sensor for Robotic Applications	38
Monolithic Three-Dimensional Functionally Graded Hydrogels for Bioinspired Soft Robots Fabrication	38
Sigmoidal Auxiliary Tendon-Driven Mechanism Reinforcing Structural Stiffness of Hyper-Redundant Manipulator for Endoscopic Surgery	37
Lattice-and-Plate Model: Mechanics Modeling of Physical Origami Robots	37
Microfiber-Shaped Programmable Materials with Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel	37
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications	35
MagWorm: A Biomimetic Magnet Embedded Worm-Like Soft Robot	35
A Geometric Kinematic Model for Flexible Voxel-Based Robots	35
Omnidirectional Jump Control of a Locust-Computer Hybrid Robot	35
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers	34
Exo-Glove Shell: A Hybrid Rigid-Soft Wearable Robot for Thumb Opposition with an Under-Actuated Tendon-Driven System	34
Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Robot Driven by Pneumatic Bistable Actuators	33
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration	33
A Layer Jamming Actuator for Tunable Stiffness and Shape-Changing Devices	33
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots	32
Pneumatic System Capable of Supplying Programmable Pressure States for Soft Robots	32
A Soft and Bistable Gripper with Adjustable Energy Barrier for Fast Capture in Space	32
Limpet II: A Modular, Untethered Soft Robot	32
A Soft-Bodied Aerial Robot for Collision Resilience and Contact-Reactive Perching	32
Precurved, Fiber-Reinforced Actuators Enable Pneumatically Efficient Replication of Complex Biological Motions	32
Robust Multimodal Indirect Sensing for Soft Robots Via Neural Network-Aided Filter-Based Estimation	31
Tactile Model O: Fabrication and Testing of a 3D-Printed, Three-Fingered Tactile Robot Hand	31
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design	31
External Steering of Vine Robots via Magnetic Actuation	29
A Multipole Magnetoactive Elastomer for Vibration-Driven Locomotion	28
Fluid Mechanics of Pneumatic Soft Robots	28
Intentional Blocking Based Photoelectric Soft Pressure Sensor with High Sensitivity and Stability	28
Stiffness Change for Reconfiguration of Inflated Beam Robots	27
Multidimensional Tactile Sensor with a Thin Compound Eye-Inspired Imaging System	27
Design and Development of a Continuum Robot with Switching-Stiffness	27
Left-Handed or Right-Handed? Determinants of the Chirality of Helically Deformable Soft Actuators	26
Small-Scale Soft Terrestrial Robot with Electrically Driven Multi-Modal Locomotion Capability	26
Piezo-Wormbots for Continuous Crawling	26
Bioinspired Soft Robotic Fingers with Sequential Motion Based on Tendon-Driven Mechanisms	26
Pneumatically Controlled Reconfigurable Bistable Bionic Flower for Robotic Gripper	26
Compliant, Large-Strain, and Self-Sensing Twisted String Actuators	26
3D Printed Biomimetic Soft Robot with Multimodal Locomotion and Multifunctionality	25
An Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Torsionally Stiff Body and Smooth Inverse Kinematics	25
3D Printed Magnetic Bionic Robot Inspired by Octopus for Drug Transportation	24
Learning-Based Control for Soft Robot–Environment Interaction with Force/Position Tracking Capability	24
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors	23
Woven Fabric Muscle for Soft Wearable Robotic Application Using Two-Dimensional Zigzag Shape Memory Alloy Actuator	23
A Wide-Range Stiffness-Tunable Soft Actuator Inspired by Deep-Sea Glass Sponges	22
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects	22
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation	22
V-Shape Pneumatic Torsional Actuator: A Building Block for Soft Grasper and Manipulator	22
Skeletonizing the Dynamics of Soft Continuum Body from Video	22

Soft Miniaturized Actuation and Sensing Units for Dynamic Force Control of Cardiac Ablation Catheters	21
Generative Design Procedure for Embedding Specified Planar Behavior in Modular Soft Pneumatic Actuators	21
Macro Fiber Composite-Actuated Soft Robotic Fish: A Gray Box Model-Predictive Motion Planning Strategy Under Limited Actuation	21
Proprioception and Exteroception of a Soft Robotic Finger Using Neuromorphic Vision-Based Sensing	21
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation	21
SofaGym: An Open Platform for Reinforcement Learning Based on Soft Robot Simulations	20
Complex Three-Dimensional Terrains Traversal of Insect-Scale Soft Robot	20
Variable Stiffness Electroadhesion and Compliant Electroadhesive Grippers	19
Control-Oriented Models for Hyperelastic Soft Robots Through Differential Geometry of Curves	18
Design of a Wearable Real-Time Hand Motion Tracking System Using an Array of Soft Polymer Acoustic Waveguides	18
Reticular Origami Soft Robotic Gripper for Shape-Adaptive and Bistable Rapid Grasping	18
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems	18
Armor-Based Stable Force Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Steady Actuation Properties	18
Bioinspired High-Degrees of Freedom Soft Robotic Glove for Restoring Versatile and Comfortable Manipulation	18
Tunable, Textile-Based Joint Impedance Module for Soft Robotic Applications	16
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics	16
Untethered Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Embedded Multiple Sensing Capabilities	15
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli	15
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding	15
Squid-Inspired Powerful Untethered Soft Pumps via Magnetically Induced Phase Transitions	15
Shock Resistive Flexure-Based Anthropomorphic Hand with Enhanced Payload	15
Bioinspired Bidirectional Stiffening Soft Actuators Enable Versatile and Robust Grasping	15
Design and Gesture Optimization of a Soft-Rigid Robotic Hand for Adaptive Grasping	15
A Hybrid Anchoring Technology Composed of Reinforced Flexible Shells for a Knee Unloading Exosuit	15
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion	15
A Hybrid Jamming Structure Combining Granules and a Chain Structure for Robotic Applications	14
Safe Supervisory Control of Soft Robot Actuators	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
A Millimeter-Scale Multilocomotion Microrobot Capable of Controlled Crawling and Jumping	14
Worm-Inspired, Untethered, Soft Crawling Robots for Pipe Inspections	14
Action Augmentation of Tactile Perception for Soft-Body Palpation	14
Flexible Manipulator with Low-Melting-Point Alloy Actuation and Variable Stiffness	14
A Cephalopod-Inspired Soft-Robotic Siphon for Thrust Vectoring and Flow Rate Regulation	13
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications	13
Pneumatic Supply System Parameter Optimization for Soft Actuators	13
Flexible Electronic Skin for Monitoring of Grasping State During Robotic Manipulation	13
Spikebot: A Multigait Tensegrity Robot with Linearly Extending Struts	13
Origami Polyhedra-Based Soft Multicellular Robots	13
Role of Fiber Orientations in the Mechanics of Bioinspired Fiber-Reinforced Elastomers	12
Tunable Folding Assembly Strategy for Soft Pneumatic Actuators	12
Soft Robotic Finger with Energy-Coupled Quadrastability	12
Unlocking Versatility: Magnetic-Actuated Deployable Suction Gripper for Complex Surface Handling	12
Untethered-Bioinspired Quadrupedal Robot Based on Double-Chamber Pre-charged Pneumatic Soft Actuators with Highly Flexible Trunk	12
Robotic Trajectories and Morphology Manipulation of Single Particle and Granular Materials by a Vibration Tweezer	12
Variable Stiffness Devices Using Fiber Jamming for Application in Soft Robotics and Wearable Haptics	11
From Skin Movement to Wearable Robotics: The Case of Robotic Gloves	11
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration	11
Bioinspired Soft Spine Enables Small-Scale Robotic Rat to Conquer Challenging Environments	11
Tuning Stiffness with Granular Chain Structures for Versatile Soft Robots	11
Electrically Activated Soft Robots: Speed Up by Rolling	11
Design and Analytical Modeling of a Dumbbell-Shaped Balloon Anchoring Actuator for Safe and Efficient Locomotion Inside Gastrointestinal Tract	11
A Sensorized Soft Robotic Hand with Adhesive Fingertips for Multimode Grasping and Manipulation	11
Soft Robotics: A Route to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity in Robotics	11
LM-Jelly: Liquid Metal Enabled Biomimetic Robotic Jellyfish	11
Fluidic Multichambered Actuator and Multiaxis Intrinsic Force Sensing	11
Single-Actuator Soft Robot for In-Pipe Crawling	11
Maneuverable and Efficient Locomotion of a Myriapod Robot with Variable Body-Axis Flexibility via Instability and Bifurcation	11
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion	11
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton	10
Teleoperation of an Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with a Metamorphic Palm and Tunable-Stiffness Soft Fingers	10
Graphene-Based Thermopneumatic Generator for On-Board Pressure Supply of Soft Robots	10
Performance Enhancement of Soft Nanotextured Thermopneumatic Actuator by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into Elastomer Body	10
Electroactive Polymer-Based Soft Actuator with Integrated Functions of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Motion and Perception	10
Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail	10
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles	10
Light-Responsive Hydrogel Microcrawlers, Powered and Steered with Spatially Homogeneous Illumination	10
Parasitic Capacitance-Free Flexible Tactile Sensor with a Real-Contact Trigger	10
Deformation Characteristics of Three-Dimensional Spiral Soft Actuator Driven by Water Hydraulics for Underwater Manipulator	10
Selaginella lepidophylla-Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator	10
Variable Stiffness Object Recognition with a CNN-Bayes Classifier on a Soft Gripper	10
A Soft Material Flow Sensor for Micro Air Vehicles	10
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers	9
A Flexible, Acoustic Localized Sensor with Mass Block–Beam Structure Based on Polydimethylsiloxane–Silver Nanowires	9
Smart Skin: Vision-Based Soft Pressure Sensing System for In-Home Hand Rehabilitation	9
Bioinspired Soft Electrostatic Accordion-Fold Actuators	9
A Novel Pressure-Controlled Revolute Joint with Variable Stiffness	9
Tuning the Morphology of Suction Discs to Enable Directional Adhesion for Locomotion in Wet Environments	9
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming	9
Sim-to-Real for High-Resolution Optical Tactile Sensing: From Images to Three-Dimensional Contact Force Distributions	9

Modeling and Optimization of Electrostatic Film Actuators Based on the Method of Moments	8
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming	8
Miniaturized Circuitry for Capacitive Self-Sensing and Closed-Loop Control of Soft Electrostatic Transducers	8
Tapered Polymer Whiskers to Enable Three-Dimensional Tactile Feature Extraction	8
Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System	8
Optimal Design of Electrode Topology of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Based on the Parameterized Level Set Method	8
A Learning-Based Approach to Sensorize Soft Robots	8
Bio-SHARPE: Bioinspired Soft and High Aspect Ratio Pumping Element for Robotic and Medical Applications	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
Origami-Inspired Soft Twisting Actuator	8
Soluble Polymer Pneumatic Networks and a Single-Pour System for Improved Accessibility and Durability of Soft Robotic Actuators	8
Variable Rigidity Module with a Flexible Thermoelectric Device for Bidirectional Temperature Control	8
Bio-Inspired Transparent Soft Jellyfish Robot	8
Educational Soft Underwater Robot with an Electromagnetic Actuation	7
Pump-Free Pneumatic Actuator Driven by the Vapor Pressure at the Gas–Liquid Equilibrium of Aqua Ammonia	7
Global Vision-Based Formation Control of Soft Robotic Fish Swarm	7
Soft Robots for Ocean Exploration and Offshore Operations: A Perspective	7
Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms	7
Design and Analysis of Reconfigurable Origami-Based Vacuum Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Versatile Robotic System	7
Fast-Swimming Soft Robotic Fish Actuated by Bionic Muscle	7
Untethered Multimode Fluidic Actuation: A New Approach to Soft and Compliant Robotics	7
Characterization of Temperature and Humidity Dependence in Soft Elastomer Behavior	7
Origami Spring-Inspired Shape Morphing for Flexible Robotics	7
MorphGI: A Self-Propelling Soft Robotic Endoscope Through Morphing Shape	7
Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Bimodal Bending Response Using a Single Pressure Source	7
Single-Material Solvent-Driven Polydimethylsiloxane Sponge Bending Actuators	7
Multimode Grasping Soft Gripper Achieved by Layer Jamming Structure and Tendon-Driven Mechanism	7
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation	7
Automatic Design Framework of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Neural Network-Based Real-Time Simulation, Genetic Algorithm-Based Electrode Optimization, and Experimental Verification	7
How Do Combustions Actuate High-Speed Soft Robots?	7
A Navigation Algorithm to Enable Sustainable Control of Insect-Computer Hybrid Robot with Stimulus Signal Regulator and Habituation-Breaking Function	6
Leaf-Like Origami with Bistability for Self-Adaptive Grasping Motions	6
An Analysis of Peristaltic Locomotion for Maximizing Velocity or Minimizing Cost of Transport of Earthworm-Like Robots	6
Multifunctional Soft Stackable Robots by Netting–Rolling–Splicing Pneumatic Artificial Muscles	6
Patient-Specific Magnetic Catheters for Atraumatic Autonomous Endoscopy	6
Unsupervised Sim-to-Real Adaptation of Soft Robot Proprioception Using a Dual Cross-Modal Autoencoder	6
Characteristic Analysis and Design Optimization of Bubble Artificial Muscles	6
Human-Powered Master Controllers for Reconfigurable Fluidic Soft Robots	6
A Sea-Anemone-Inspired, Multifunctional, Bistable Gripper	6
A Novel Extensible Continuum Robot with Growing Motion Capability Inspired by Plant Growth for Path-Following in Transoral Laryngeal Surgery	6
From Two-Dimensional to Three-Dimensional: Diversified Bending Modality of a Cable-Driven Actuator and Its Grasping Characteristics	5
A Soft Robot for Peripheral Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy	5
Facile Analytical Extraction of the Hyperelastic Constants for the Two-Parameter Mooney–Rivlin Model from Experiments on Soft Polymers	5
Design and Feasibility Tests of a Lightweight Soft Gripper for Compliant and Flexible Envelope Grasping	5
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness	5
Deflected Versus Preshaped Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Design and Performance Analysis Toward Reliable Soft Robots	5
Bioinspired 3D-Printed Snakeskins Enable Effective Serpentine Locomotion of a Soft Robotic Snake	5
Tendon-Driven Jamming Mechanism for Configurable Variable Stiffness	5
A Locally Actuatable Soft Robotic Film for Actively Reconfiguring Shapes of Flexible Electronics	5
Circular Shell Gripper for Handling Food Products	5
A Versatile Topology-Optimized Compliant Actuator for Soft Robotic Gripper and Walking Robot	5
A Bioinspired Compliant 3D-Printed Soft Gripper	5
Sensing, Actuating, and Interacting Through Passive Body Dynamics: A Framework for Soft Robotic Hand Design	5
Three-Fingered Soft Pneumatic Gripper Integrating Joint-Tuning Capability	5
A Soft Robotic Balloon Endoscope for Airway Procedures	5
Versatile Soft Robot Gripper Enabled by Stiffness and Adhesion Tuning via Thermoplastic Composite	5