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Nick van der Geest, Lorenzo Garcia, Roy Nates and Fraser Borrett
Sea turtles gracefully navigate their marine environments by flapping their pectoral flippers in an elegant routine to produce the required hydrodynamic forces required for locomotion. The propulsion of sea turtles has been shown to occur for approximate...
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Irena Sajovic, Mateja Kert and Bojana Boh Podgornik
According to ISO/TR 23383, smart textiles reversibly interact with their environment and respond or adapt to changes in the environment. The present review and bibliometric analysis was performed on 5810 documents (1989?2022) from the Scopus database, us...
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Boai Sun, Weikun Li, Zhangyuan Wang, Yunpeng Zhu, Qu He, Xinyan Guan, Guangmin Dai, Dehan Yuan, Ang Li, Weicheng Cui and Dixia Fan
Compared with traditional underwater vehicles, bio-inspired fish robots have the advantages of high efficiency, high maneuverability, low noise, and minor fluid disturbance. Therefore, they have gained an increasing research interest, which has led to a ...
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Junhao Zhang, Yinglong Chen, Yi Liu and Yongjun Gong
For decades, underwater vehicles have been performing underwater operations, which are critical to the development and upgrading of underwater robots. With the advancement of technology, various types of robots have been developed. The underwater robotic...
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Muhammad Yasar Razzaq, Joamin Gonzalez-Gutierrez, Gregory Mertz, David Ruch, Daniel F. Schmidt and Stephan Westermann
Four-dimensional (4D) printing technology, as a next-generation additive manufacturing method, enables printed objects to further change their shapes, functionalities, or properties upon exposure to external stimuli. The 4D printing of programmable and d...
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José Emilio Traver, Cristina Nuevo-Gallardo, Paloma Rodríguez, Inés Tejado and Blas M. Vinagre
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) are electrically driven materials that undergo bending deformations in the presence of relatively low external voltages, exhibiting a great potential as actuators in applications in soft robotics, microrobotics, and...
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Carl Strathearn
This study employs a novel 3D engineered robotic eye system with dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) pupils and a 3D sculpted and colourised gelatin iris membrane to replicate the appearance and materiality of the human eye. A camera system for facial ex...
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Aiiad Albeshri
Many smart city and society applications such as smart health (elderly care, medical applications), smart surveillance, sports, and robotics require the recognition of user activities, an important class of problems known as human activity recognition (H...
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Dong-Woon Choi, Cho-Won Lee, Duk-Yeon Lee, Dong-Wook Lee and Han-Ul Yoon
This paper presents the bio-mimetic design approach, the dynamic model, and potential applications for a hybrid soft actuator. The proposed hybrid soft actuator consists of two main parts: a cylinder-shaped rigid core and soft silicone spikes wrapped aro...
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Jung-Hwan Youn, Seung Mo Jeong, Geonwoo Hwang, Hyunwoo Kim, Kyujin Hyeon, Jihwan Park and Ki-Uk Kyung
The main application area of dielectric elastomers is soft robotics as muscle-like actuators.
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