The parallel driving soft manipulator with multiple extensors and contractile pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) is able to operate continuously and has varying stiffness, achieving smooth movements and a fundamental trade-off between flexibility an...
Soft robotics, a recent advancement in robotics systems, distinguishes itself by utilizing soft and flexible materials like silicon rubber, prioritizing safety during human interaction, and excelling in handling complex or delicate objects. Soft pneu...
In this paper, we investigate the design of pennate topology fluidic artificial muscle bundles under spatial constraints. Soft fluidic actuators are of great interest to roboticists and engineers, due to their potential for inherent compliance and sa...
This article presents a novel design for a double bend pneumatic muscle actuator (DB-PMA) inspired by snake lateral undulation. The presented actuator has the ability to bend in opposite directions from its two halves. This behavior results in horizo...
The paper presents an innovative theoretical concept of a bio-inspired soft gripper system with two parallel jaws, a fixed and a mobile one. It is conceived for gripping fragile or soft objects with complex, irregular shapes that are easily deformabl...
In this article, a soft robot arm that has the ability to twist in two directions is designed. This continuum arm is inspired by the twisting movements of the human upper limb. In this novel continuum arm, two contractor pneumatic muscle actuators (P...
The widespread application of exoskeletons driven by soft actuators in motion assistance and medical rehabilitation has proven effective for patients who struggle with precise object grasping and suffer from insufficient hand strength due to strokes...
Tissue engineering methods that aim to mimic the hierarchical structure of skeletal muscle tissue have been widely developed due to utilities in various fields of biology, including regenerative medicine, food technology, and soft robotics. Most meth...
Biomimicry is a field of research that uses the functional and structural components of nature, at macroscopic and microscopic scales, to inspire solutions to problems in our industrial world. Soft robotics is an area of research that uses biomimicry...
Fluidic artificial muscles (FAMs), also known as McKibben actuators, are a class of fiber-reinforced soft actuators that can be pneumatically or hydraulically pressurized to produce muscle-like contraction and force generation. When multiple FAMs are...
Cleft palate syndrome, first observed in the spectacled flying fox population in 1998, has produced sporadic neonatal mortality events over the past two decades, with an estimated incidence of up to 1/1000 births per year. This study presents a rudim...
Background and Objectives: Sarcopenia is a progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and function in elderly adults, posing a significant risk of frailty, falls, and morbidity. The current study designs and evaluates SarcoNet, a novel artificial neura...