When I was starting in my mechanical design career, I thought that to design a complex system you would create every component individually and then assemble everything in a single big model like you ...

Microcontact printing (µCP) 1, first introduced by Whitesides and colleagues in the 1990s, is a soft lithography technique that utilizes elastomeric stamps, typically made of polydimethylsiloxane ...

In this paper, a variable structure pneumatic soft robot is proposed. Its structure is variable in that when it grasps irregular objects, it can adapt to different sizes by active expansion or ...