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Dynamic Bonding for In-Situ Welding of Multilayer Elastomers Enables High-Performance Wearable Electronics for Machine Learning-Assisted Active Rehabilitation.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Mar 12, 2025
Patients with hand dysfunction require joint rehabilitation for functional restoration, and wearable electronics can provide physical signals to assess and guide the process. However, most wearable electronics are susceptible to failure under large d...
Squid-Inspired Anti-Salt Skin-Like Elastomers With Superhigh Damage Resistance for Aquatic Soft Robots.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Sep 12, 2024
Cephalopod skins evolve multiple functions in response to environmental adaptation, encompassing nonlinear mechanoreponse, damage tolerance property, and resistance to seawater. Despite tremendous progress in skin-mimicking materials, the integration...
DE-AFO: A Robotic Ankle Foot Orthosis for Children with Cerebral Palsy Powered by Dielectric Elastomer Artificial Muscle.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 11, 2024
Conventional passive ankle foot orthoses (AFOs) have not seen substantial advances or functional improvements for decades, failing to meet the demands of many stakeholders, especially the pediatric population with neurological disorders. Our objectiv...
Self-Amputating and Interfusing Machines.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Jun 7, 2024
Biological organisms exhibit phenomenal adaptation through morphology-shifting mechanisms including self-amputation, regeneration, and collective behavior. For example, reptiles, crustaceans, and insects amputate their own appendages in response to t...
Tunable Light-Responsive Polyurethane-urea Elastomer Driven by Photochemical and Photothermal Coupling Mechanism.
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Apr 6, 2024
Light-driven soft actuators based on photoresponsive materials can be used to mimic biological motion, such as hand movements, without involving rigid or bulky electromechanical actuations. However, to our knowledge, no robust photoresponsive materia...
Soft octopus-inspired suction cups using dielectric elastomer actuators with sensing capabilities.
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Apr 3, 2024
Bioinspired and biomimetic soft grippers are rapidly growing fields. They represent an advancement in soft robotics as they emulate the adaptability and flexibility of biological end effectors. A prominent example of a gripping mechanism found in nat...
Electro-Thermopneumatically Actuated, Adhesion-Force Controllable Octopus-Like Suction Cup Actuator.
Soft robotics
Apr 1, 2024
A light-weight actuator developed in this work belongs to a class of soft robots, and in a sense, resembles an octopus. Its main function is in the attachment or detachment to a solid surface driven by an electro-thermopneumatic mechanism. In this st...
Magneto-Mechanical Coupling Study of Magnetorheological Elastomer Thin Films for Sensitivity Enhancement.
ACS sensors
Jan 6, 2024
Magnetorheological elastomer thin films (MREFs) exhibit remarkable deformability and an adjustable modulus under magnetic fields, rendering them promising in fields such as robotics, flexible sensors, and biomedical engineering. Here, we fabricated M...
A modular strategy for distributed, embodied control of electronics-free soft robots.
Science advances
Jul 7, 2023
Robots typically interact with their environments via feedback loops consisting of electronic sensors, microcontrollers, and actuators, which can be bulky and complex. Researchers have sought new strategies for achieving autonomous sensing and contro...
Hybrid artificial muscle: enhanced actuation and load-bearing performance an origami metamaterial endoskeleton.
Materials horizons
Jul 3, 2023
Owing to their compliance, soft robots demonstrate enhanced compatibility with humans and the environment compared with traditional rigid robots. However, ensuring the working effectiveness of artificial muscles that actuate soft robots in confined s...
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