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Empowering artificial muscles with intelligence: recent advancements in materials, designs, and manufacturing.

Materials horizons
Drawing on foundational knowledge of the structure and function of biological muscles, artificial muscles have made remarkable strides over the past decade, achieving performance levels comparable to those of their natural counterparts. However, they...

A machine learning system for artificial ligaments with desired mechanical properties in ACL reconstruction applications.

Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
The anterior cruciate ligament is one of the important tissues to maintain the stability of the human knee joint, but it is difficult for this ligament to self-heal after injury. Consequently, transplantation of artificial ligaments (ALs) has gained ...

Embedding Bifurcations into Pneumatic Artificial Muscle.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Harnessing complex body dynamics has long been a challenge in robotics, particularly when dealing with soft dynamics, which exhibit high complexity in interacting with the environment. Recent studies indicate that these dynamics can be used as a comp...

Effective On-Line Performance Modulation and Efficient Continuous Preparation of Ultra-Long Twisted and Coiled Polymer Artificial Muscles for Engineering Applications.

Soft robotics
Artificial muscle is a kind of thread-like actuator that can produce contractile strain, generate force, and output mechanical work under external stimulations to imitate the functions and achieve the performances of biological muscles. It can be use...

Bio-SHARPE: Bioinspired Soft and High Aspect Ratio Pumping Element for Robotic and Medical Applications.

Soft robotics
The advent of soft robots has solved many issues posed by their rigid counterparts, including safer interactions with humans and the capability to work in narrow and complex environments. While much work has been devoted to developing soft actuators ...

Artificial neuromorphic cognitive skins based on distributed biaxially stretchable elastomeric synaptic transistors.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Cephalopod (e.g., squid, octopus, etc.) skin is a soft cognitive organ capable of elastic deformation, visualizing, stealth, and camouflaging through complex biological processes of sensing, recognition, neurologic processing, and actuation in a nonc...

A Liquid Metal Artificial Muscle.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Artificial muscles possess a vast potential in accelerating the development of robotics, exoskeletons, and prosthetics. Although a variety of emerging actuator technologies are reported, they suffer from several issues, such as high driving voltages,...

Electro-pneumatic pumps for soft robotics.

Science robotics
Soft robotics has applications in myriad fields from assistive wearables to autonomous exploration. Now, the portability and the performance of many devices are limited by their associated pneumatic energy source, requiring either large, heavy pressu...

HASEL Artificial Muscles for a New Generation of Lifelike Robots-Recent Progress and Future Opportunities.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Future robots and intelligent systems will autonomously navigate in unstructured environments and closely collaborate with humans; integrated with our bodies and minds, they will allow us to surpass our physical limitations. Traditional robots are mo...

Recent Progress in Artificial Muscles for Interactive Soft Robotics.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Artificial muscles are the core components of the smart and interactive soft robotic systems, providing the capabilities in shape morphing, manipulation, and mobility. Intense research efforts in the development of artificial muscles are based on the...