... pesticides – pose risks to health and ecosystems. Farmers must increase production while reducing costs and environmental impact. Robotics offers precision, efficiency and sustainability in agricultural operations. Soft robotics and artificial intelligence advances enable machines to perform environmental...

... a universal mechanoreception method for soft fingers that only uses indispensable bending and pressure sensors without tactile sensors. It helps to reduce the hardware complexity of soft robots. Meanwhile, the soft finger no longer needs to deploy the tactile sensor at the fingertip, which can benefit...

... behavior in addressing this newly available powerful technology in the right direction. Originality/value The paper describes the impact of new technology, such as AI and soft robotics. The world of work must react quickly to these epochal changes to enjoy their full benefits. Francesco E. Cepolina...

.... In addition, the construction of the soft actuator is presented in detail together with its performance. Soft robot gloves’ designed through actuators can realize the specified bending angle of fingers under pressure. To get the optimal actuator model, we established several finite element models...

... The proposed closed-chain mathematical framework is based on distributed DOFs instead of the conventional lumped joint approach. This is to better optimize and understand the kinematics of soft robotic mechanisms. Muddasar Anwar can be contacted at: m.anwar@qub.ac.uk The actuator used...

...Guangkai Sun; Yang Hu; Mingli Dong; Yanlin He; Mingxin Yu; Lianqing Zhu Purpose Soft robotics is a burgeoning field owing to its high adaptability and safety in human–machine interaction and unstructured environments. However, the feedback control of soft actuators with flexible sensors is still...

... is required before these become a practical reality. Originality/value – This article provides an insight into recent technological advances in shape-changing and self-reconfiguring robots. Robot Origami Self-reconfiguring Shape changing Soft robotics Figure 1 Two 3D printed...

... Alloys Muscles Pneumatic equipment Soft gripping Artificial muscles Pneumatics Soft robotics Electroactive polymer Shape‐memory alloy Electro‐conjugate fluid Figure 1 Examples of air muscles The major attractions of pneumatic technologies are low weight and inherently...