A Review of Soft Actuator Motion: Actuation, Design, Manufacturing and Applications

• Published in: Actuators Vol. 11; no. 11; p. 331
• Main Authors: Tang, Xianzhi, Li, Huaqiang, Ma, Teng, Yang, Yang, Luo, Ji, Wang, Haidan, Jiang, Pei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.11.2022
• Subjects: Actuation; Actuators; applications; Chemical reactions; Comparative analysis; Crystal structure; design; Electric fields; Electrodes; Electrolytes; Energy efficiency; Humidity; Light; Magnetic fields; Manufacturing; Muscles; Production methods; Production processes; Rheology; Robots; soft actuator; Soft robotics; Stiffness; Viscosity

Compared with traditional rigid robots, soft robots have high flexibility, low stiffness, and adaptability to unstructured environments, and as such have great application potential in scenarios such as fragile object grasping and human machine interaction. Similar to biological muscles, the soft ac...