Soft Robotics

Article	Citations
Octopus Arm-Inspired Tapered Soft Actuators with Suckers for Improved Grasping	172
Toward a Common Framework and Database of Materials for Soft Robotics	152
Fully Wearable Actuated Soft Exoskeleton for Grasping Assistance in Everyday Activities	116
Soft Rod-Climbing Robot Inspired by Winding Locomotion of Snake	110
Fluidic Fabric Muscle Sheets for Wearable and Soft Robotics	97
A Wearable Soft Haptic Communicator Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators	94
Hybrid Jamming for Bioinspired Soft Robotic Fingers	94
Novel Bending and Helical Extensile/Contractile Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Inspired by Elephant Trunk	92
Bioinspired Three-Dimensional-Printed Helical Soft Pneumatic Actuators and Their Characterization	90
Shape Memory Alloy-Based Soft Finger with Changeable Bending Length Using Targeted Variable Stiffness	81
Design, Modeling, and Evaluation of Fabric-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Wearable Assistive Gloves	78
MakeSense: Automated Sensor Design for Proprioceptive Soft Robots	70
An Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Torsionally Stiff Body and Smooth Inverse Kinematics	68
A Machine-Learning-Based Approach to Solve Both Contact Location and Force in Soft Material Tactile Sensors	64
Soft Robots for Ocean Exploration and Offshore Operations: A Perspective	63
MagWorm: A Biomimetic Magnet Embedded Worm-Like Soft Robot	61
Adaptive Variable Stiffness Particle Phalange for Robust and Durable Robotic Grasping	59
Swimming Performance of the Frog-Inspired Soft Robot	58
Additive Manufacturing for Self-Healing Soft Robots	56
Pneumatically Actuated Soft Gripper with Bistable Structures	55
Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms	52
Patient-Specific Magnetic Catheters for Atraumatic Autonomous Endoscopy	52
Laser-Profiled Continuum Robot with Integrated Tension Sensing for Simultaneous Shape and Tip Force Estimation	52
Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators with Free Strokes Enable Soft Robots with Programmable Motions	50
Variable Stiffness Devices Using Fiber Jamming for Application in Soft Robotics and Wearable Haptics	49

Modal-Based Kinematics and Contact Detection of Soft Robots	49
A Super-Lightweight and Soft Manipulator Driven by Dielectric Elastomers	49
Circular Shell Gripper for Handling Food Products	48
Tensegrity Robotics	46
Fiber Jamming Transition as a Stiffening Mechanism for Soft Robotics	45
Body Wave Generation for Anguilliform Locomotion Using a Fiber-Reinforced Soft Fluidic Elastomer Actuator Array Toward the Development of the Eel-Inspired Underwater Soft Robot	45
Rolling Locomotion of Cable-Driven Soft Spherical Tensegrity Robots	45
Soft Humanoid Hands with Large Grasping Force Enabled by Flexible Hybrid Pneumatic Actuators	43
Multimode Grasping Soft Gripper Achieved by Layer Jamming Structure and Tendon-Driven Mechanism	43
Analytical Modeling and Design of Generalized Pneu-Net Soft Actuators with Three-Dimensional Deformations	41
An Underwater Robotic Manipulator with Soft Bladders and Compact Depth-Independent Actuation	41
Phase Changing Materials-Based Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Structures	40
Untethered Soft Robotics with Fully Integrated Wireless Sensing and Actuating Systems for Somatosensory and Respiratory Functions	40
A Layer Jamming Actuator for Tunable Stiffness and Shape-Changing Devices	38
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications	37
A Novel Fabric Muscle Based on Shape Memory Alloy Springs	37
Texture Discrimination with a Soft Biomimetic Finger Using a Flexible Neuromorphic Tactile Sensor Array That Provides Sensory Feedback	36
Toward Task Autonomy in Robotic Cardiac Ablation: Learning-Based Kinematic Control of Soft Tendon-Driven Catheters	35
Soft Actuators Based on Liquid–Vapor Phase Change Composites	34
Photoresponsive Hydrogel Microcrawlers Exploit Friction Hysteresis to Crawl by Reciprocal Actuation	34
Lightweight Highly Tunable Jamming-Based Composites	33
Recent Progress of Soft Electrothermal Actuators	33
Characteristic Analysis and Design Optimization of Bubble Artificial Muscles	33
A Snake-Inspired Layer-Driven Continuum Robot	32
Pre-Programmed Tri-Layer Electro-Thermal Actuators Composed of Shape Memory Polymer and Carbon Nanotubes	32
Optimal Design of a Compliant Constant-Force Mechanism to Deliver a Nearly Constant Output Force Over a Range of Input Displacements	31
Pneumatic Supply System Parameter Optimization for Soft Actuators	31
3D Printed Biomimetic Soft Robot with Multimodal Locomotion and Multifunctionality	31
Global Vision-Based Formation Control of Soft Robotic Fish Swarm	31
Soft Miniaturized Actuation and Sensing Units for Dynamic Force Control of Cardiac Ablation Catheters	31
Integration, Sensing, and Control of a Modular Soft-Rigid Pneumatic Lower Limb Exoskeleton	31
LM-Jelly: Liquid Metal Enabled Biomimetic Robotic Jellyfish	31
An Exoneuromusculoskeleton for Self-Help Upper Limb Rehabilitation After Stroke	31
Modeling and Analysis of Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Symmetrical Chambers Used for Bionic Robotic Fish	30
Design and Development of a Growing Pneumatic Soft Robot	29
A Novel Tendon-Driven Soft Actuator with Self-Pumping Property	29
SoGut: A Soft Robotic Gastric Simulator	29
3D Printing Microactuators for Soft Microrobots	29
A Human-Inspired Soft Finger with Dual-Mode Morphing Enabled by Variable Stiffness Mechanism	29
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications	29
Position and Force Control of a Soft Pneumatic Actuator	28
A Bioinspired Soft Swallowing Robot Based on Compliant Guiding Structure	28
Limpet II: A Modular, Untethered Soft Robot	28
A Bioinspired Soft Swallowing Gripper for Universal Adaptable Grasping	28
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers	28
Stiffness-Tunable Soft Gripper with Soft-Rigid Hybrid Actuation for Versatile Manipulations	28
Pneumatically Controlled Reconfigurable Bistable Bionic Flower for Robotic Gripper	28
Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System	27
Mechanoreception for Soft Robots via Intuitive Body Cues	27
A Wearable Textile-Embedded Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Haptic Display	26

Single-Input Control of Multiple Fluid-Driven Elastic Actuators via Interaction Between Bistability and Viscosity	26
A Shapeshifting Ferrofluidic Robot	26
An Analysis of Peristaltic Locomotion for Maximizing Velocity or Minimizing Cost of Transport of Earthworm-Like Robots	26
Twisted Rubber Variable-Stiffness Artificial Muscles	25
Geometric Confined Pneumatic Soft–Rigid Hybrid Actuators	25
Compliant, Large-Strain, and Self-Sensing Twisted String Actuators	25
Tendon-Driven Jamming Mechanism for Configurable Variable Stiffness	24
Bioinspired High-Degrees of Freedom Soft Robotic Glove for Restoring Versatile and Comfortable Manipulation	24
Optical Sensor-Embedded Pneumatic Artificial Muscle for Position and Force Estimation	23
Fast Thermal Actuators for Soft Robotics	23
Continuum Robotic Caterpillar with Wirelessly Powered Shape Memory Alloy Actuators	23
Versatile Soft Robot Gripper Enabled by Stiffness and Adhesion Tuning via Thermoplastic Composite	23
Tactile Model O: Fabrication and Testing of a 3D-Printed, Three-Fingered Tactile Robot Hand	23
Anguilliform Swimming Performance of an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot	22
Force Control of a 3D Printed Soft Gripper with Built-In Pneumatic Touch Sensing Chambers	22
A Soft Exoskeleton for Tremor Suppression Equipped with Flexible Semiactive Actuator	22
Robust Multimodal Indirect Sensing for Soft Robots Via Neural Network-Aided Filter-Based Estimation	22
One-Shot 3D-Printed Multimaterial Soft Robotic Jamming Grippers	22
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation	22
Flexible Capacitive Curvature Sensor with One-Time Calibration for Amphibious Gait Monitoring	21
Soft, Wearable, and Pleated Pneumatic Interference Actuator Provides Knee Extension Torque for Sit-to-Stand	21
Low-Voltage-Driven Large-Amplitude Soft Actuators Based on Phase Transition	20
Facile Analytical Extraction of the Hyperelastic Constants for the Two-Parameter Mooney–Rivlin Model from Experiments on Soft Polymers	20
All-Soft Skin-Like Structures for Robotic Locomotion and Transportation	20
Bone-Inspired Bending Soft Robot	20
Origami Spring-Inspired Shape Morphing for Flexible Robotics	20
Recurrent Braiding of Thin McKibben Muscles to Overcome Their Limitation of Contraction	20
Inflatable Particle-Jammed Robotic Gripper Based on Integration of Positive Pressure and Partial Filling	20
A Soft Robot for Peripheral Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy	19
Fluid Mechanics of Pneumatic Soft Robots	19
A Layered Manufacturing Approach for Soft and Soft-Rigid Hybrid Robots	19
Flexoskeleton Printing Enables Versatile Fabrication of Hybrid Soft and Rigid Robots	19
Design and Fabrication of a Low-Cost Silicone and Water-Based Soft Actuator with a High Load-to-Weight Ratio	19
Design, Analysis, and Grasping Experiments of a Novel Soft Hand: Hybrid Actuator Using Shape Memory Alloy Actuators, Motors, and Electromagnets	19
Bioinspired Multimodal Multipose Hybrid Fingers for Wide-Range Force, Compliant, and Stable Grasping	18
Flexible Manipulator with Low-Melting-Point Alloy Actuation and Variable Stiffness	18
Bio-Inspired Transparent Soft Jellyfish Robot	18
Origami-Inspired Soft Twisting Actuator	18
Efficient Multiaxial Shoulder-Motion Tracking Based on Flexible Resistive Sensors Applied to Exosuits	17
Single-Actuator Soft Robot for In-Pipe Crawling	17
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots	16
A Bioinspired Compliant 3D-Printed Soft Gripper	16
Electrically Activated Soft Robots: Speed Up by Rolling	16
Poisson Induced Bending Actuator for Soft Robotic Systems	15
Action Augmentation of Tactile Perception for Soft-Body Palpation	15
Self-Regulating Plant Robots: Bioinspired Heliotropism and Nyctinasty	15
RoSE: A Robotic Soft Esophagus for Endoprosthetic Stent Testing	15
Miniaturized Circuitry for Capacitive Self-Sensing and Closed-Loop Control of Soft Electrostatic Transducers	15
Robotic Trajectories and Morphology Manipulation of Single Particle and Granular Materials by a Vibration Tweezer	15
Sim-to-Real for High-Resolution Optical Tactile Sensing: From Images to Three-Dimensional Contact Force Distributions	15
Leaf-Like Origami with Bistability for Self-Adaptive Grasping Motions	15
Two-Dimensional Thermal Haptic Module Based on a Flexible Thermoelectric Device	15
Variable Stiffness Electroadhesion and Compliant Electroadhesive Grippers	14
Fully Soft Pressure Sensor Based on Bionic Spine–Pillar Structure for Robotics Motion Monitoring	14
Untethered-Bioinspired Quadrupedal Robot Based on Double-Chamber Pre-charged Pneumatic Soft Actuators with Highly Flexible Trunk	13
Electroactive Polymer-Based Soft Actuator with Integrated Functions of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Motion and Perception	13
Intentional Blocking Based Photoelectric Soft Pressure Sensor with High Sensitivity and Stability	13
Experimental Investigation into the Dynamics of a Radially Contracting Actuator with Embedded Sensing Capability	13
A Biologically Inspired Ring-Shaped Soft Pneumatic Actuator for Large Deformations	12
Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Bimodal Bending Response Using a Single Pressure Source	12
Static Modeling of the Fiber-Reinforced Soft Pneumatic Actuators Including Inner Compression: Bending in Free Space, Block Force, and Deflection upon Block Force	12
Armor-Based Stable Force Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Steady Actuation Properties	12
Topology Optimization and Prototype of a Multimaterial-Like Compliant Finger by Varying the Infill Density in 3D Printing	12
Three-Fingered Soft Pneumatic Gripper Integrating Joint-Tuning Capability	12
Pneumatic System Capable of Supplying Programmable Pressure States for Soft Robots	12
A Multimodal, Reconfigurable Workspace Soft Gripper for Advanced Grasping Tasks	11
Parasitic Capacitance-Free Flexible Tactile Sensor with a Real-Contact Trigger	11
Control-Oriented Models for Hyperelastic Soft Robots Through Differential Geometry of Curves	11
A Gas–Ribbon-Hybrid Actuated Soft Finger with Active Variable Stiffness	11
Untethered Multimode Fluidic Actuation: A New Approach to Soft and Compliant Robotics	11
Microfiber-Shaped Programmable Materials with Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel	11
Surface Actuation and Sensing of a Tensegrity Structure Using Robotic Skins	11
Reconfigurable Particle Swarm Robotics Powered by Acoustic Vibration Tweezer	11
Fluid–Structure Coupling Model and Experimental Validation of Interaction Between Pneumatic Soft Actuator and Lower Limb	11
A Method for 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping of Fieldable Untethered Soft Robots	10
Soluble Polymer Pneumatic Networks and a Single-Pour System for Improved Accessibility and Durability of Soft Robotic Actuators	10
Static Modeling of Soft Reinforced Bending Actuator Considering External Force Constraints	10
A Cephalopod-Inspired Soft-Robotic Siphon for Thrust Vectoring and Flow Rate Regulation	10
Visual Servoing Pushing Control of the Soft Robot with Active Pushing Force Regulation	10
A Novel Pressure-Controlled Revolute Joint with Variable Stiffness	9

Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics	9
A Soft and Bistable Gripper with Adjustable Energy Barrier for Fast Capture in Space	9
Highly Stretchable Flame-Retardant Skin for Soft Robotics with Hydrogel–Montmorillonite-Based Translucent Matrix	9
Honeycomb Jamming: An Enabling Technology of Variable Stiffness Reconfiguration	9
Closing the Control Loop with Time-Variant Embedded Soft Sensors and Recurrent Neural Networks	9
A Learning-Based Approach to Sensorize Soft Robots	9
A Wide-Range Stiffness-Tunable Soft Actuator Inspired by Deep-Sea Glass Sponges	9
Increased Longevity and Pumping Performance of an Injection Molded Soft Total Artificial Heart	9
3D Upper Body Reconstruction with Sparse Soft Sensors	9
Bioinspired Amphibious Origami Robot with Body Sensing for Multimodal Locomotion	9
A Preprogrammable Continuum Robot Inspired by Elephant Trunk for Dexterous Manipulation	9
Smart Skin: Vision-Based Soft Pressure Sensing System for In-Home Hand Rehabilitation	9
Soft Actuator with Programmable Design: Modeling, Prototyping, and Applications	9
Monolithic Three-Dimensional Functionally Graded Hydrogels for Bioinspired Soft Robots Fabrication	9
Multijointed Pneumatic Soft Hand with Flexible Thenar	9
Bioinspired 3D-Printed Snakeskins Enable Effective Serpentine Locomotion of a Soft Robotic Snake	9
3D Printed Acoustically Programmable Soft Microactuators	8
A Novel Biomimetic Compliant Structural Skin Based on Composite Materials for Biorobotics Applications	8
A Sea-Anemone-Inspired, Multifunctional, Bistable Gripper	8
Proprioception and Exteroception of a Soft Robotic Finger Using Neuromorphic Vision-Based Sensing	8
Copebot: Underwater Soft Robot with Copepod-Like Locomotion	8
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness	8
SofaGym: An Open Platform for Reinforcement Learning Based on Soft Robot Simulations	8
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot	8
Paper-Based Robotics with Stackable Pneumatic Actuators	8
Artificial Whisker Sensor with Undulated Morphology and Self-Spread Piezoresistors for Diverse Flow Analyses	8
A Hybrid Jamming Structure Combining Granules and a Chain Structure for Robotic Applications	8
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration	8
Three-Layered Design of Electrothermal Actuators for Minimal Voltage Operation	7
Design, Analysis, and Real-Time Simulation of a 3D Soft Robotic Snake	7
Variable Stiffness Object Recognition with a CNN-Bayes Classifier on a Soft Gripper	7
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor	7
An Ambidextrous STarfish-Inspired Exploration and Reconnaissance Robot (The ASTER-bot)	7
SpringWorm: A Soft Crawling Robot with a Large-Range Omnidirectional Deformable Rectangular Spring for Control Rod Drive Mechanism Inspection	7
Tunable Soft Lens of Large Focal Length Change	7
A Soft Material Flow Sensor for Micro Air Vehicles	7
Bioinspired Soft Robotic Fingers with Sequential Motion Based on Tendon-Driven Mechanisms	7
Rapid Soft Material Actuation Through Droplet Evaporation	7
Terrain Adaptability and Optimum Contact Stiffness of Vibro-bot with Arrayed Soft Legs	7
Maximal Performance of an Antagonistically Coupled Dielectric Elastomer Actuator System	7
Variable Rigidity Module with a Flexible Thermoelectric Device for Bidirectional Temperature Control	7
Role of Fiber Orientations in the Mechanics of Bioinspired Fiber-Reinforced Elastomers	7
Sigmoidal Auxiliary Tendon-Driven Mechanism Reinforcing Structural Stiffness of Hyper-Redundant Manipulator for Endoscopic Surgery	7
A Novel Spider-Inspired Rotary-Rolling Diaphragm Actuator with Linear Torque Characteristic and High Mechanical Efficiency	7