A recently published #OpenAccess article introduces a feedback strategy for safe soft actuator operation during control of a soft robot.

A recent article "Interference Morphology of Free-Growing Tendrils and Application of Self-Locking Structures" is #FreeAccess through February 22, 2024:

A recent study proposes a novel design of soft artificial muscle that utilizes shape memory alloy spring actuators with pre-detwinning process. #FreeAccess through 2/22:

"A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities" is #FreeAccess through 12/31: .

"Deformation Characteristics of Three-Dimensional Spiral Soft Actuator Driven by Water Hydraulics for Underwater Manipulator" is #FreeAccess through December 31st.

Recently published article "Squid-Inspired Powerful Untethered Soft Pumps via Magnetically Induced Phase Transitions" is #FreeAccess through December 31st.

This article introduces a novel type of untethered soft pneumatic actuator with embedded multiple sensing capabilities. The untethered drive of the soft pneumatic actuator is achieved by near-infrared-induced liquid-gas phase transition.

Published in @SoftRobotics_JN, this article presents the development and kinematic modeling of a soft, telescopic, continuum arm integrated into a modular robot. #machinelearning #softrobotics.#FreeAccess through December 8:

In a recently published article, authors propose octopus-inspired muscular hydrostats powered by an emerging class of artificial muscles called twisted and coiled artificial muscles. #FreeAccess through December 8:

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A recent #OpenAccess article presents a tensegrity robot inspired by the volumetric expansion of Tetraodontidae. The robot employs pneumatically actuated rigid struts to expand its global structure and produce diverse gaits.

In a recent study, piezo-wormbots were developed by automatically triggering the mechanical metamaterial-inspired soft actuator to mimic the continuous crawling of inchworms without manipulation.

@SoftRobotics_JN is looking for new cover image art from our readers! The art must feature a new image of a soft robot or soft robotic technology that is making a difference in the field. #softrobots #softrobotics .Learn more:

A recently published article extracts the common requirements of diverse application domains and develops a versatile compliant actuator in "A Versatile Topology-Optimized Compliant Actuator for Soft Robotic Gripper and Walking Robot".

RT @BigData_Journal: The National Alliance against Disparities in Patient Health presents a Roundtable Discussion on the topic of embedding….

A recently published #OpenAccess article covers the "Characterization of Temperature and Humidity Dependence in Soft Elastomer Behavior".

RT @anybotics: 🎙️ Our CEO @fankhauser talked to @MarwaEldiwiny on the #SoftRobotics Podcast. They talked about finding a niche in the robot….

A recent study presents a thermo-PAM called Thermo-PAM that relies on heating of a volume of air to produce a deformation. This allows for pneumatic actuation using only an electrical power source and thus enables pumpless pneumatic actuation.

Recently published article on "Soft Robotic Finger with Energy-Coupled Quadrastability" is #FreeAccess through September 25th:

Recently published #OpenAccess article on "Latent Representation-Based Learning Controller for Pneumatic and Hydraulic Dual Actuation of Pressure-Driven Soft Actuators" is now available online:.#softrobotics #actuators