Soft Robot Design, Manufacturing, and Operation Challenges: A Review

IF 4.7 3区材料科学 Q1 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ACS Applied Electronic Materials Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI:10.3390/jmmp8020079

Getachew A. Ambaye, Enkhsaikhan Boldsaikhan, Krishna Krishnan

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Advancements in smart manufacturing have embraced the adoption of soft robots for improved productivity, flexibility, and automation as well as safety in smart factories. Hence, soft robotics is seeing a significant surge in popularity by garnering considerable attention from researchers and practitioners. Bionic soft robots, which are composed of compliant materials like silicones, offer compelling solutions to manipulating delicate objects, operating in unstructured environments, and facilitating safe human–robot interactions. However, despite their numerous advantages, there are some fundamental challenges to overcome, which particularly concern motion precision and stiffness compliance in performing physical tasks that involve external forces. In this regard, enhancing the operation performance of soft robots necessitates intricate, complex structural designs, compliant multifunctional materials, and proper manufacturing methods. The objective of this literature review is to chronicle a comprehensive overview of soft robot design, manufacturing, and operation challenges in conjunction with recent advancements and future research directions for addressing these technical challenges.

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软机器人的设计、制造和运行挑战：综述

智能制造领域的进步促使人们采用软体机器人来提高智能工厂的生产率、灵活性、自动化和安全性。因此，软体机器人技术受到了研究人员和从业人员的广泛关注，其受欢迎程度正在大幅提高。仿生软体机器人由硅树脂等顺应性材料组成，为操纵精密物体、在非结构化环境中运行以及促进安全的人机交互提供了令人信服的解决方案。然而，尽管它们具有众多优势，但仍有一些基本挑战需要克服，特别是在执行涉及外力的物理任务时，运动精度和刚度顺应性方面的挑战。因此，要提高软体机器人的操作性能，就必须采用复杂的结构设计、符合要求的多功能材料和适当的制造方法。本文献综述旨在全面概述软体机器人在设计、制造和操作方面面临的挑战，以及应对这些技术挑战的最新进展和未来研究方向。

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期刊介绍： ACS Applied Electronic Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of electronic materials. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials science, engineering, optics, physics, and chemistry into important applications of electronic materials. Sample research topics that span the journal's scope are inorganic, organic, ionic and polymeric materials with properties that include conducting, semiconducting, superconducting, insulating, dielectric, magnetic, optoelectronic, piezoelectric, ferroelectric and thermoelectric. Indexed/Abstracted： Web of Science SCIE Scopus CAS INSPEC Portico