ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2017
Fundamentals of soft robot locomotion.
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41 citing papers in PubMed.
- Allowing caterpillar locomotion on any substrates: towards hybrid soft robots design.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2026Article
- FaBrick: An actuated fabric building platform for constructing scalable and versatile soft robots.Science advances · 2026Article
- Multi-Gait In-Pipe Locomotion via Programmable Friction Reorientation.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- A Novel Enhanced Methodology for Position and Orientation Control of the I-SUPPORT Robot.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Modular shape-changing tensegrity-blocks enable self-assembling robotic structures.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Competition between elasticity and adhesion in caterpillar locomotion.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- 2-dimensional impact-damping electrostatic actuators with elastomer-enhanced auxetic structure.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Fabric soft pneumatic actuators with programmable turing pattern textures.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Earthworm-Inspired Soft Skin Crawling Robot.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Soft Self-Healing Robot Driven by New Micro Two-Way Shape Memory Alloy Spring.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Robust self-propulsion in sand using simply controlled vibrating cubes.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2024Article
- A stiffness-tunable soft actuator inspired by helix for medical applications.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2023Article
- Kirigami Makes a Soft Magnetic Sheet Crawl.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- A multifunctional soft robotic shape display with high-speed actuation, sensing, and control.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Design and Motion Analysis of a Soft-Limb Robot Inspired by Bacterial Flagella.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Linking neural circuits to the mechanics of animal behavior inFrontiers in neural circuits · 2023Review
- A Worm-like Crawling Soft Robot with Pneumatic Actuators Based on Selective Laser Sintering of TPU Powder.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Soft robotics and its related technologies enable robot abilities in several robotics domains including, but not exclusively related to, manipulation, manufacturing, human-robot interaction and locomotion. Although field applications have emerged for soft manipulation and human-robot interaction, mobile soft robots appear to remain in the research stage, involving the somehow conflictual goals of having a deformable body and exerting forces on the environment to achieve locomotion. This paper aims to provide a reference guide for researchers approaching mobile soft robotics, to describe the underlying principles of soft robot locomotion with its pros and cons, and to envisage applications and further developments for mobile soft robotics.
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