Soft Robotics

Article	Citations
Toward a Common Framework and Database of Materials for Soft Robotics	197
Fully Wearable Actuated Soft Exoskeleton for Grasping Assistance in Everyday Activities	134
Soft Robots for Ocean Exploration and Offshore Operations: A Perspective	90
An Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Torsionally Stiff Body and Smooth Inverse Kinematics	80
MagWorm: A Biomimetic Magnet Embedded Worm-Like Soft Robot	71
Pneumatically Actuated Soft Gripper with Bistable Structures	69
Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms	68
Variable Stiffness Devices Using Fiber Jamming for Application in Soft Robotics and Wearable Haptics	68
Adaptive Variable Stiffness Particle Phalange for Robust and Durable Robotic Grasping	67
Patient-Specific Magnetic Catheters for Atraumatic Autonomous Endoscopy	61
Multimode Grasping Soft Gripper Achieved by Layer Jamming Structure and Tendon-Driven Mechanism	61
Additive Manufacturing for Self-Healing Soft Robots	60
Tensegrity Robotics	59
Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators with Free Strokes Enable Soft Robots with Programmable Motions	59
Fiber Jamming Transition as a Stiffening Mechanism for Soft Robotics	56
Modal-Based Kinematics and Contact Detection of Soft Robots	54
Circular Shell Gripper for Handling Food Products	54
Analytical Modeling and Design of Generalized Pneu-Net Soft Actuators with Three-Dimensional Deformations	54
Soft Humanoid Hands with Large Grasping Force Enabled by Flexible Hybrid Pneumatic Actuators	51
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications	47
Texture Discrimination with a Soft Biomimetic Finger Using a Flexible Neuromorphic Tactile Sensor Array That Provides Sensory Feedback	45
A Layer Jamming Actuator for Tunable Stiffness and Shape-Changing Devices	45
A Snake-Inspired Layer-Driven Continuum Robot	44
LM-Jelly: Liquid Metal Enabled Biomimetic Robotic Jellyfish	43
Lightweight Highly Tunable Jamming-Based Composites	42

Toward Task Autonomy in Robotic Cardiac Ablation: Learning-Based Kinematic Control of Soft Tendon-Driven Catheters	39
Pneumatic Supply System Parameter Optimization for Soft Actuators	39
Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System	38
An Exoneuromusculoskeleton for Self-Help Upper Limb Rehabilitation After Stroke	38
Recent Progress of Soft Electrothermal Actuators	38
Global Vision-Based Formation Control of Soft Robotic Fish Swarm	38
Photoresponsive Hydrogel Microcrawlers Exploit Friction Hysteresis to Crawl by Reciprocal Actuation	38
3D Printed Biomimetic Soft Robot with Multimodal Locomotion and Multifunctionality	38
Characteristic Analysis and Design Optimization of Bubble Artificial Muscles	37
Soft Actuators Based on Liquid–Vapor Phase Change Composites	37
Optimal Design of a Compliant Constant-Force Mechanism to Deliver a Nearly Constant Output Force Over a Range of Input Displacements	36
A Bioinspired Soft Swallowing Gripper for Universal Adaptable Grasping	35
Pneumatically Controlled Reconfigurable Bistable Bionic Flower for Robotic Gripper	35
SoGut: A Soft Robotic Gastric Simulator	35
Stiffness-Tunable Soft Gripper with Soft-Rigid Hybrid Actuation for Versatile Manipulations	35
Fast Thermal Actuators for Soft Robotics	34
Soft Miniaturized Actuation and Sensing Units for Dynamic Force Control of Cardiac Ablation Catheters	34
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications	33
Anguilliform Swimming Performance of an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot	33
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers	33
A Wearable Textile-Embedded Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Haptic Display	32
Compliant, Large-Strain, and Self-Sensing Twisted String Actuators	32
A Human-Inspired Soft Finger with Dual-Mode Morphing Enabled by Variable Stiffness Mechanism	32
An Analysis of Peristaltic Locomotion for Maximizing Velocity or Minimizing Cost of Transport of Earthworm-Like Robots	32
3D Printing Microactuators for Soft Microrobots	32
Bio-Inspired Transparent Soft Jellyfish Robot	32
Limpet II: A Modular, Untethered Soft Robot	31
Flexible Manipulator with Low-Melting-Point Alloy Actuation and Variable Stiffness	31
Robust Multimodal Indirect Sensing for Soft Robots Via Neural Network-Aided Filter-Based Estimation	31
A Shapeshifting Ferrofluidic Robot	29
Bioinspired High-Degrees of Freedom Soft Robotic Glove for Restoring Versatile and Comfortable Manipulation	28
One-Shot 3D-Printed Multimaterial Soft Robotic Jamming Grippers	28
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation	28
Origami-Inspired Soft Twisting Actuator	28
Single-Actuator Soft Robot for In-Pipe Crawling	27
Tendon-Driven Jamming Mechanism for Configurable Variable Stiffness	26
Tactile Model O: Fabrication and Testing of a 3D-Printed, Three-Fingered Tactile Robot Hand	26
Electrically Activated Soft Robots: Speed Up by Rolling	26
Force Control of a 3D Printed Soft Gripper with Built-In Pneumatic Touch Sensing Chambers	26
Continuum Robotic Caterpillar with Wirelessly Powered Shape Memory Alloy Actuators	26
Soft, Wearable, and Pleated Pneumatic Interference Actuator Provides Knee Extension Torque for Sit-to-Stand	26
Bioinspired Multimodal Multipose Hybrid Fingers for Wide-Range Force, Compliant, and Stable Grasping	25
A Soft Exoskeleton for Tremor Suppression Equipped with Flexible Semiactive Actuator	25
A Multimodal, Reconfigurable Workspace Soft Gripper for Advanced Grasping Tasks	24
Origami Spring-Inspired Shape Morphing for Flexible Robotics	24
Versatile Soft Robot Gripper Enabled by Stiffness and Adhesion Tuning via Thermoplastic Composite	24
Inflatable Particle-Jammed Robotic Gripper Based on Integration of Positive Pressure and Partial Filling	24
Flexible Capacitive Curvature Sensor with One-Time Calibration for Amphibious Gait Monitoring	23
A Soft Robot for Peripheral Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy	23
Leaf-Like Origami with Bistability for Self-Adaptive Grasping Motions	23

A Preprogrammable Continuum Robot Inspired by Elephant Trunk for Dexterous Manipulation	22
Facile Analytical Extraction of the Hyperelastic Constants for the Two-Parameter Mooney–Rivlin Model from Experiments on Soft Polymers	22
Design and Fabrication of a Low-Cost Silicone and Water-Based Soft Actuator with a High Load-to-Weight Ratio	21
Miniaturized Circuitry for Capacitive Self-Sensing and Closed-Loop Control of Soft Electrostatic Transducers	21
A Soft and Bistable Gripper with Adjustable Energy Barrier for Fast Capture in Space	21
Low-Voltage-Driven Large-Amplitude Soft Actuators Based on Phase Transition	21
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots	21
Bone-Inspired Bending Soft Robot	21
Flexoskeleton Printing Enables Versatile Fabrication of Hybrid Soft and Rigid Robots	21
Fluid Mechanics of Pneumatic Soft Robots	21
A Bioinspired Compliant 3D-Printed Soft Gripper	20
Electroactive Polymer-Based Soft Actuator with Integrated Functions of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Motion and Perception	20
Variable Stiffness Electroadhesion and Compliant Electroadhesive Grippers	19
Artificial Whisker Sensor with Undulated Morphology and Self-Spread Piezoresistors for Diverse Flow Analyses	18
Action Augmentation of Tactile Perception for Soft-Body Palpation	18
Topology Optimization and Prototype of a Multimaterial-Like Compliant Finger by Varying the Infill Density in 3D Printing	18
Sim-to-Real for High-Resolution Optical Tactile Sensing: From Images to Three-Dimensional Contact Force Distributions	18
RoSE: A Robotic Soft Esophagus for Endoprosthetic Stent Testing	18
Untethered-Bioinspired Quadrupedal Robot Based on Double-Chamber Pre-charged Pneumatic Soft Actuators with Highly Flexible Trunk	18
Robotic Trajectories and Morphology Manipulation of Single Particle and Granular Materials by a Vibration Tweezer	17
A Sea-Anemone-Inspired, Multifunctional, Bistable Gripper	17
Two-Dimensional Thermal Haptic Module Based on a Flexible Thermoelectric Device	16
Pneumatic System Capable of Supplying Programmable Pressure States for Soft Robots	16
Surface Actuation and Sensing of a Tensegrity Structure Using Robotic Skins	15
Three-Fingered Soft Pneumatic Gripper Integrating Joint-Tuning Capability	15
Armor-Based Stable Force Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Steady Actuation Properties	15
Fully Soft Pressure Sensor Based on Bionic Spine–Pillar Structure for Robotics Motion Monitoring	15
Untethered Multimode Fluidic Actuation: A New Approach to Soft and Compliant Robotics	15
SofaGym: An Open Platform for Reinforcement Learning Based on Soft Robot Simulations	15
A Gas–Ribbon-Hybrid Actuated Soft Finger with Active Variable Stiffness	15
Parasitic Capacitance-Free Flexible Tactile Sensor with a Real-Contact Trigger	15
Intentional Blocking Based Photoelectric Soft Pressure Sensor with High Sensitivity and Stability	15
A Method for 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping of Fieldable Untethered Soft Robots	14
Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Bimodal Bending Response Using a Single Pressure Source	14
Honeycomb Jamming: An Enabling Technology of Variable Stiffness Reconfiguration	14
Design, Analysis, and Real-Time Simulation of a 3D Soft Robotic Snake	14
A Wide-Range Stiffness-Tunable Soft Actuator Inspired by Deep-Sea Glass Sponges	14
Static Modeling of the Fiber-Reinforced Soft Pneumatic Actuators Including Inner Compression: Bending in Free Space, Block Force, and Deflection upon Block Force	14
Reconfigurable Particle Swarm Robotics Powered by Acoustic Vibration Tweezer	14
Bioinspired Amphibious Origami Robot with Body Sensing for Multimodal Locomotion	13
Closing the Control Loop with Time-Variant Embedded Soft Sensors and Recurrent Neural Networks	13
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration	13
Prescribing Cartesian Stiffness of Soft Robots by Co-Optimization of Shape and Segment-Level Stiffness	13
Control-Oriented Models for Hyperelastic Soft Robots Through Differential Geometry of Curves	13
A Biologically Inspired Ring-Shaped Soft Pneumatic Actuator for Large Deformations	13
Visual Servoing Pushing Control of the Soft Robot with Active Pushing Force Regulation	13
Proprioception and Exteroception of a Soft Robotic Finger Using Neuromorphic Vision-Based Sensing	13
Multijointed Pneumatic Soft Hand with Flexible Thenar	12
Bioinspired Soft Robotic Fingers with Sequential Motion Based on Tendon-Driven Mechanisms	12
Bioinspired 3D-Printed Snakeskins Enable Effective Serpentine Locomotion of a Soft Robotic Snake	12
Microfiber-Shaped Programmable Materials with Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel	12
A Learning-Based Approach to Sensorize Soft Robots	12
Static Modeling of Soft Reinforced Bending Actuator Considering External Force Constraints	11
Copebot: Underwater Soft Robot with Copepod-Like Locomotion	11
Variable Stiffness Object Recognition with a CNN-Bayes Classifier on a Soft Gripper	11
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics	11
A Flexible Iontronic Capacitive Sensing Array for Hand Gesture Recognition Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks	11
An Ambidextrous STarfish-Inspired Exploration and Reconnaissance Robot (The ASTER-bot)	11
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field	11
Soluble Polymer Pneumatic Networks and a Single-Pour System for Improved Accessibility and Durability of Soft Robotic Actuators	11
Monolithic Three-Dimensional Functionally Graded Hydrogels for Bioinspired Soft Robots Fabrication	11
Highly Stretchable Flame-Retardant Skin for Soft Robotics with Hydrogel–Montmorillonite-Based Translucent Matrix	11
Paper-Based Robotics with Stackable Pneumatic Actuators	11
A Novel Pressure-Controlled Revolute Joint with Variable Stiffness	11
A Cephalopod-Inspired Soft-Robotic Siphon for Thrust Vectoring and Flow Rate Regulation	11
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot	11
SpringWorm: A Soft Crawling Robot with a Large-Range Omnidirectional Deformable Rectangular Spring for Control Rod Drive Mechanism Inspection	10
Sensing, Actuating, and Interacting Through Passive Body Dynamics: A Framework for Soft Robotic Hand Design	10
Sigmoidal Auxiliary Tendon-Driven Mechanism Reinforcing Structural Stiffness of Hyper-Redundant Manipulator for Endoscopic Surgery	10
A Novel Biomimetic Compliant Structural Skin Based on Composite Materials for Biorobotics Applications	10
Smart Skin: Vision-Based Soft Pressure Sensing System for In-Home Hand Rehabilitation	10
Increased Longevity and Pumping Performance of an Injection Molded Soft Total Artificial Heart	10
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness	10
A Hybrid Jamming Structure Combining Granules and a Chain Structure for Robotic Applications	10
Soft Actuator with Programmable Design: Modeling, Prototyping, and Applications	10
Terrain Adaptability and Optimum Contact Stiffness of Vibro-bot with Arrayed Soft Legs	9
A Soft Material Flow Sensor for Micro Air Vehicles	9
3D Upper Body Reconstruction with Sparse Soft Sensors	9
Tunable Soft Lens of Large Focal Length Change	9
A Soft-Bodied Aerial Robot for Collision Resilience and Contact-Reactive Perching	9

A Gecko-Inspired Robot with a Flexible Spine Driven by Shape Memory Alloy Springs	9
A Soft Robotic Balloon Endoscope for Airway Procedures	9
Toward the Development of Large-Scale Inflatable Robotic Arms Using Hot Air Welding	9
3D Printed Acoustically Programmable Soft Microactuators	8
Modular Morphing Lattices for Large-Scale Underwater Continuum Robotic Structures	8
Flexible Electronic Skin for Monitoring of Grasping State During Robotic Manipulation	8
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor	8
Modular Bioinspired Hand with Multijoint Rigid-Soft Finger Possessing Proprioception	8
A Novel Spider-Inspired Rotary-Rolling Diaphragm Actuator with Linear Torque Characteristic and High Mechanical Efficiency	8
SoRSS: A Soft Robot for Bio-Mimicking Stomach Anatomy and Motility	8
From Two-Dimensional to Three-Dimensional: Diversified Bending Modality of a Cable-Driven Actuator and Its Grasping Characteristics	8
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation	8
Design and Development of a Continuum Robot with Switching-Stiffness	8
A Stretchable Fiber with Tunable Stiffness for Programmable Shape Change of Soft Robots	8
Magnetic Continuum Robot with Intraoperative Magnetic Moment Programming	8
The Soft Ray-Inspired Robots Actuated by Solid–Liquid Interpenetrating Silicone-Based Dielectric Elastomer Actuator	8
Variable Rigidity Module with a Flexible Thermoelectric Device for Bidirectional Temperature Control	8
Role of Fiber Orientations in the Mechanics of Bioinspired Fiber-Reinforced Elastomers	8
Multidimensional Tactile Sensor with a Thin Compound Eye-Inspired Imaging System	8
Versatile Adhesion-Based Gripping via an Unstructured Variable Stiffness Membrane	8
A Lower Limb Rehabilitation Assistance Training Robot System Driven by an Innovative Pneumatic Artificial Muscle System	7
Design and Feasibility Tests of a Lightweight Soft Gripper for Compliant and Flexible Envelope Grasping	7
Optimal Design of Electrode Topology of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Based on the Parameterized Level Set Method	7
Topology and Morphology Design of Spherically Reconfigurable Homogeneous Modular Soft Robots	7
Lattice-and-Plate Model: Mechanics Modeling of Physical Origami Robots	7
Soft Robot Proprioception Using Unified Soft Body Encoding and Recurrent Neural Network	7
Magnetic Soft Helical Manipulators with Local Dipole Interactions for Flexibility and Forces	7
Tuning the Morphology of Suction Discs to Enable Directional Adhesion for Locomotion in Wet Environments	7
Rapid Soft Material Actuation Through Droplet Evaporation	7
Maximal Performance of an Antagonistically Coupled Dielectric Elastomer Actuator System	7
Soft Electromagnetic Motor and Soft Magnetic Sensors for Synchronous Rotary Motion	7
An Air Recirculation System Based on Bioinspired Soft Re-Air Valve for Highly Efficient Pneumatic Actuation	7
Multifunctional Soft Stackable Robots by Netting–Rolling–Splicing Pneumatic Artificial Muscles	7
Bioinspired Bistable Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Programmable Shapes and Application as Binary Valves	7
Hydraulic Detrusor for Artificial Bladder Active Voiding	7